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...Motions of the Planets", Professor Stetson, Astronomy laboratory...
...Solar Phenomena", Professor Stetson, Astronomy Laboratory...
...those who like to stamp with their feet on the earth and feel that they're here because they're here the theories of Professor Stetson relative to the effect of the rising and the setting of the moon upon the latitude of a place may come as disturbing news. They may feel the solid ground fall beneath their feet, and when they think they're Fifty North and Forty West they may be in quite another locality...
...does seem as if the earth were the victim of a kind of heavenly conspiracy to make its crust crawl. Professor Stetson says that perhaps the stars, those eternal symbols of constancy, may be in the plot, too, allowing their rays to be deflected by an atmospheric tidal wave caused by the moon. Shifts in the axis of the earth, and tides in its crust are other possibilities, the scientists assure us, just like that...
...quantitive measurement of the radio reception intensities was begun at the private laboratory of Mr. G. W. Pickard in Newton Centre. Last year a duplicate outfit was then installed at the Astronomical Laboratory in Cambridge and the measurements carried on there under the direction of Professor Stetson. For a few weeks simultaneous records were kept in the two places until a satisfactory reduction factor was obtained whereby the two series of data could be rendered comparable...