Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly two and a half million miles per hour, or over 650 miles per second, is the extraordinary speed at which the star RZ Cephei is moving through space, according to a discovery made public by the Harvard College Observatory last night. This star has been found by University astronomers to have a greater velocity than any other star whose speed has yet been determined...
...Cephei, a variable star of the so-called cluster type, has long been known to astronomers, but its velocity was never measured until recently. It is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, being of the tenth magnitude. It is in the constellation Cepheus, and is 3800 light years distant from the earth, which means that the light from it which astronomers now see through their telescopes started on its journey to the earth in the time of the shepherd kings of Egypt, nearly nineteen hundred years before Christ. That distance is only a small fraction...
...York state. From the county fairs are to be expected some likely prospects. The tournament is to be strictly amateur, and an invitation to participate has been sent to President Harding, who has had a fine record in ringing the peg out behind the office of the "Marlou Star." Since Tex himself is an avowed Democrat this is reported either as an indication of a coming party split or as a move for coalition against the farm bloc. It may be that the real motive is gate-receipts...
...local New Haven team, it journeyed to Princeton and defeated the Tiger cubs 1-0. In the latter game, the play was evenly contested, though Princeton lost a number of chances to score, while Yale took advantage of her only good opportunity. Milliken, Eli center halfback, was the outstanding star for the Blue...
...Richard Bennett, star of "He Who Gets Slapped"; spoke to 200 members of the University and Radcliffe yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the 47 Workshop. The speaker was introduced by Professor G. P. Baker...