Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaseous cloud. For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his "nebula hypothesis" lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been formed that way, but not the planets. To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into beadlike planets...
Kuiper is a serious astronomer who holds himself loftily above the little vanities of man. But his theory, which requires no rare catastrophe for the formation of planets, makes it much less likely that man is alone in the universe. The sun is an ordinary star, of very common size, temperature and chemical composition. If it has acquired planets in the normal course of its development, many millions of similar stars may have planets too. If so, there is a chance that high forms of life, perhaps higher than man, have developed on some of them...
...there in the wreckage when I saw a man approaching, and I thought: 'Thank God, here is help at last.' Instead, he just leveled a camera at me, and bang! then he was gone." Presbrey's exclusive picture (see cut) made the front page of the Star and went all over the country by wirephoto. Hard-boiled Reporter Presbrey sent the girl a print of the picture and a message: "I'm sorry, but deadlines are deadlines...
Paul Presbrey, a small, hard-eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...
...Henderso, captain of last year's championship Middlebury team, and Graham Taylor, veteran Harvard cross country and jump star, will serve as co-coaches during the coming season. The team will also be strengthened by the return to Cambridge of Bill Wasserman, who spent last year in the French Alps, sharpening up on technique...