Word: supers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times: ''We do not like to think of a populace at the mercy of this fearfully magnified and potent tone that Professor Theremin has brought into the world. The radio machines are bad enough, but what will happen to the auditory nerves in a land where super-Theremin machines can hurl a jazz ditty through the atmosphere with such horribly magnified sonorities that they could deaden the sound of an automobile exhaust from 20 miles away...
...England who are desirous of a college education as there are in America. Then too, in Spain the A. B. degree means almost nothing, for the Universities there take boys at the age of 14 or 15, and the course given is more like that of a super high-school rather than anything similar to that taught in an American college...
From the researches back of the classification, the following points are indicated: our galaxy is not a typical galaxy, a spiral or star cloud, but rather should be compared with clouds of galaxies. It is comparable in dimensions and population with the Coma-Virgo Super-Galaxy, which contains two or three hundred individual galaxies...
...groups of super-galaxies are coming to light in the comprehensive survey of external systems, one of the most conspicuous cases being a pair of super-galaxies in Coma-Virgo at a distance of about one hundred and fifty million light years...
Within the past year or two at the Harvard Observatory Professor Shapley has developed and published detailed classifications of galactic star clusters, of globular star clusters, and of external galaxies. In this series of lectures new classifications will be proposed for star clouds super-galaxies, multiple stars, planetary structures, systems of satellites, and meteoritic associations...