Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Burke will also run in the invitation Meadowbrook 660-yard race for the President's cup. Although it has been announced that Helfrich, the Penn State star, will be unable to take part, the Crimson leader is expected to encounter some very stiff opposition in this event. C. A. C. Eastman '23 will represent the University in the shot put tonight. He has been doing very well with the 16 pound shot recently, and should do good work tonight, unless the change to the 12-pound weight, which will be used tonight, bothers him. In the triangular meet with...
William B. Martin, Harvard '21, is reported to have signed a contract to sing star roles at the Opera Comique, Paris. He, say the critics of Paris, " may well be the world's new Caruso...
Alexander Woolloott: ". . . . The bright unwinking star of Laurette Taylor never shone more clearly...
Immediately after sundown any clear night there apppears in the southwestern sky near the horizon a star of the first magnitude and of the brilliancy of Aldebaran. This is Beta Ceti, formerly on the outermost reaches of the known stellar system, a second magnitude star of the constellation of the Whale. Eighty years ago it suddenly flared up to double its brightness, a fact that our astronomers have just learned (since Beta Ceti is 80 light-years away...
Such sudden increase in brilliancy of fixed stars is not uncommon. Most astronomers believe that the changes are due to eruptions within each particular star, and that the sun spots we observe from time to time are similar, though trifling, eruptions within our sun. Since the stars that suddenly become twice as brilliant are supposed to be in about the same stage of development as our sun, the latter too might at any time flare up as the stars have done; and if it did, the intense heat would consume everything on earth as fiercely as an acetyline torch licks...