Word: tartu
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...Adventures of Tartu (M.G.M.-Gainsborough) enlists Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson and a cast like a jeweler's tray in the shiniest spy thriller since Night Train (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941). Many expert British melodramas baffle U.S. audiences because they are too exotically British. This one, directed in Britain by M.G.M.'s Harold S. Bucquet, is as intelligible to Americans as to Englishmen...
Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order...
Dedication of the new Astrophotographic Building yesterday was marked particularly by the talks of Ernst J. Opik of Tartu University, visiting lecturer in Astrophysics, and Dr. Annie J. Cannon, curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard. Professor Opik discussed meteorites in relation to the age of the universe, while Dr. Cannon described the growth of Harvard's collection of astronomical photographs...