Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leipzig sent the little man to Elba while a Congress sought to forget the last twenty five years at Vienna. And then the Hundred Days, to end at last when Old Blucher set his men to stabbing the Old Guard under the late June starlight. Not quite ended it is true, for six years later on a far isle in the sea a great storm of wind and rain blew up. And whilst it raged the Emperor died murmuring "France, Armee, Tete d'armee", and perhaps, as some say, "Josephine...
...whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy." On returning to himself he found that he had been lying unconscious for twelve days...
Four o'clock in the morning, seven hours later, Alfonso's car roared down to the docks at Cartagena. Police kept back the crowd. A little group of naval officers stood huddled at the end of the pier in the starlight. The Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...
...past month Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing...
...Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured the red shift in starlight, and Professor Tolman who believes with Sir James Hopwood Jeans that the universe is "exploding" (TIME, Jan. 5). After having been lectured to, Dr. Einstein gave a lecture himself last week. Before a class of 30 he talked for 90 minutes. While he rolled German words about his tongue,* he scrawled...