Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amsterdam Congress was attended by about 900 delegates from all over the world, 50 of them being Americans. Here Raisz, who studied in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated his new mapping process which he developed in conjunction with Suderland of Stockholm. Its main principle is that the map surface is divided into type regions, each represented by a symbol which is pictorial and therefore easily recognized...
...meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm, Sweden, from August 3 to 10, papers were delivered by three men from Harvard. Dr. Shapley spoke on "The Distribution of Galaxies and the Absorption of Light in space." He confirmed previous indications that our own discshaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by an immense, low-density globe of scattered stars...
...meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm last week, Dr. Shapley reported on 2,000 Cepheid variables (giant stars which fluctuate regularly in brightness) at considerable distances from the Milky Way's central plane. These have the effect of stretching the galaxy's "vertical" diameter to about 80,000 light-years.** The diameter across the disk is put at 100,000 lightyears. Thus, the flattish lens of the Milky Way is enclosed in a globe of stars, and the galaxy's total shape resembles a pumpkin...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Temporarily unphotographed, Lovers Greta Garbo (real name: Greta Louvisa Gustafsson) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski were bowling along in an automobile near Stockholm. Stoky, driving, cut a corner too sharply: the car turned over, shook them up good & proper...