Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second session found the play fast and furious. Almost the minute the whistle blew, Carson, captain and star center of the Canadians, took a pretty pass from Westman, who had carried the puck the length of the rink, and tallied on a sharp shot from the wing. Captain Owen of the Crimson sextet then took the puck from behind his own goal, through the entire Toronto team, and shot it past Langtry. Just before the close of the period, Westman, in one of the prettiest plays of the game, skated down the ice alone, and snapped home the final score...
...running high-jump, Fitts, Gerould, Murray, with H. W. Abbott '25 and J. M. Greeley '25 should be preeminent while Jenkins and Page are outstanding in the broad-jump, Greenidge in the javelin throw, Carpenter in the discus throw, and Davis in the pole-vault will probably star in their events...
Captain R. W. Heizer '24 and J. J. Sullivan Jr. '25, members of the University soccer team this fall, have been given positions on the 1922 All-Star eleven of Douglas Stewart, coach of the Penn soccer team. Mr. Stewart's All-Star team is considered as official in soccer circles as Walter Camp's All-American selection in football...
...speed of the star was measured at the University Observatory by a complicated process of observations and computations, including among other things the comparison of photographs recently taken here with others taken 31 years ago, when the Observatory was just beginning its task of preserving a photographic history of the entire sky. Since that time a "sky patrol" has been kept without interruption at Cambridge, supplemented by photographs taken at the station at Arequipa, Peru, and the history of the stars down to the eleventh magnitude has been written by the stars themselves on over a quarter of a million...
...discovery of the immense speed of RZ Cephei is said to be important to astronomers as suggesting that this type of variable star escapes from the globular clusters, a hypothesis suggested also by other recent observations...