Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bureau head-beyond satisfying TIME'S editorial queries-would be likely to include visits from such assorted personages as i) a small businessman seeking publicity for a new type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what...
...December 27, its staff scarcely glances back over the arduous way travelled since that meagre beginning in 1846, when the first permanent observation station was founded: a ten-room building on Summer House Hill, equipped only with a 15-inch refractor and meridian circle determinants of time and star positons...
Astronomy actually got its start at the University in 1839, when William C. Bond, later to become first director of the Observatory, organized a star-gazers' club, meeting bi-monthly in Dana House. Interest, however, waned, and the club was on the point of dissolution when, in March, 1843, a brilliant comet saved the day for astronomy at Harvard...
...addition to these varied activities, the Observatory still finds time to serve as head-quarters for the American Association of Variable Star Observers, an organization of amateurs who have turned in more than a million reports since the Association's beginning in 1911, and to publish monthly its magazine. Sky and Telescope, for $500, mainly amateur, world-wide subscribers...
Walt Coulson and John Fiorentino, ends; Ned Dewey, tackle; Emil Drvaric and Nick Rodis, guards; and Jack Fisher, center, were named to the all-star line. Captain Oleo Odonnell and Vince Moravec were singled out in the backfield...