Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientist has made the prediction that our descendants of the ninth or tenth generation will be so crowded into the area of the United States that there will not be space for them all to live comfortably, nor resources to provide them with food. In a few centuries the world will have reached its "saturation point" but by that time of course, we may be in communication with Mars, and if Mars has any room for our excess population we may be able to emigrate to the "new world". But if scientists fall in reach our sister planet by radio...
...Reverend Sidney M. Lovett, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Congregational Church, will give the tenth of his series of half-hour talks to Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock tonight. Singing; will be led by R. P. Bullard...
...Cephei, a variable star of the so-called cluster type, has long been known to astronomers, but its velocity was never measured until recently. It is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, being of the tenth magnitude. It is in the constellation Cepheus, and is 3800 light years distant from the earth, which means that the light from it which astronomers now see through their telescopes started on its journey to the earth in the time of the shepherd kings of Egypt, nearly nineteen hundred years before Christ. That distance is only a small fraction...
President Harding has proclaimed December third to tenth to be "education week". But be not afraid, ye loafers, this does not mean required attendance at all classes, special examinations, or a compulsory twelve-hour study day. What "education week" does mean, however, is merely a time for contemplating the need of constantly improving the educational system and for devising means to this...
...last season was the first time that the one-tenth second watch was used, it was ruled that until a former intercollegiate record was bettered by at least one-fifth of a second, in giving the record either in the official handbook or elsewhere, the names of both the old and new record-holders should be given with their respective records. This ruling applies to all records made before...