Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's new observatory will contain a 61-in. telescope, as will the University of Toronto's new Dunlap Observatory. For a half dozen years those will rank as the world's fourth largest instruments, after Carnegie Institution's 100-in. telescope at Mount Wilson, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's 72-in. at Victoria, B. C.. Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake...
...Toronto, Canada...
...James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...
...favorite, who missed winning his eighth race in a row by a short neck in a great finish; at Chicago. ¶Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr., No. 5 of the 1927 Princeton crew; the quarter-mile dash for single sculls at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, beating famed Joe Wright, of Toronto, at St. Catherines, Ont. Two days later Rutherfurd won the senior singles and, with his brother John, the senior doubles...
...superintendent of CPR's locomotive shops there which serve all its Western lines. In 1910 he left the position of foreman of all CPR shops to join the Canadian Northern as superintendent of rolling stock. His slow progression eastward was completed in 1915 when he was shifted to Toronto, there to become, in two years, general manager of Canadian Northern's eastern lines. In 1918 he be came an assistant vice president and now, acting president, he will soon in all probability be president in name as well as in power of the longest railroad in North America...