Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot Stellar '41, Roxbury, Mass...
Super-Galaxies & Cepheids. Astronomer Harlow Shapley of Harvard, who loves to systematize the universe, was the first man to find that stellar galaxies like the Milky Way, each containing billions of stars, were sometimes huddled in groups which he calls "super-galaxies." Last week he reported the discovery, made by astronomers at Harvard's observatory in South Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow...
Admittedly weakened by the Price-Tiger cotillion the night before, the Prince editors were unable to gain from scrimmage or by any other means, liquid or solid. The CRIMSON's attack was featured by the stellar broken-field ballet of Light-Horse Harry Hammond, who caused a sensation when he appeared on Brokaw Field in full football togs...
Among the newly discovered objects reported were two spiral nebulae, un-usual in that they possess no concentrated nuclei; and a Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Cetus, a new member of a class of irregularly shaped, conglomerate stellar systems...
...whole, the stellar performance of these banditti merits the attention of football coaches throughout the country who are interested in building an offense based on deception. With one of the artful dodgers in the backfield, the hidden ball trick would sweep the country again...