Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams scored a goal within four minutes after the starter's whistle blew. Upton, the star of the game, then started a steady line of shots, which more than kept pace with the combined scores Northeastern players...
Published almost instantly in the papers of two continents, these and other messages from Dolores Del Rio, screen star, in Hollywood, to her divorced husband, Jaime, ill in Berlin, did not particularly impress a U. S. public accustomed to accept the quasi-private quarrels and love-making of picture people with the same scepticism usually roused by their screen depictions of the same kind of thing...
...thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct interpretation is that of a shift in the earth's instantaneous axis of rotation. As a last resort it may be necessary to consider movement in the earth's crust, although Professor Stetson was reluctant to affirm this statement until a more extensive study...
...importance, however, of the discovered effect, the astronomer added, need hardly be emphasized, as it is involved in the accurate determination of star positions upon the minute changes of which much of the knowledge of our universe depends. If the change in latitude here noted becomes substantiated by further researches, it will appear necessary to apply new corrections to astronomical observations not hitherto recognized. It may very well be that the discrepancies between the results for the positions of stars from widely separated observatories may be largely explained by this phenomenon...
Married. Nanette Guilford (nee Gut-man), 23, "baby star" of the Metropolitan Opera Company; to Max Rosen, 28, concert violinist; in Manhattan...