Word: starlight
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...asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge...
...assumption is that "the strange light originates at some distance above the Earth's surface, in a layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection of sunlight. In any case astronomers, astrophysicists and meteorologists have a new concept of the atmosphere's optical properties to develop and evaluate...
Johns Hopkins' Pharmacologist John Jacob Abel, 75, assumed the A. A. A. S. presidency, succeeding Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas, 74. For 1934 president the Association chose Princeton's Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, 55, after he had presented his interpretation of starlight. The light might be the effect of 1) hydrogen and the lighter elements synthesizing into heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough...
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...