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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Albert, 39, another Hungarian pretender with small stomach for the job, was granted a divorce from his commoner wife, the former Irene Lelbach, who divorced her diplomat husband to marry Albert in 1930. Archduke Albert's pretensions are chiefly due to his ambitious mother, the Archduke Isabella. Twice he has sorely disappointed her, once by marrying a commoner, again by hurrying to his young cousin Otto and swearing fealty to him before Isabella could intervene...
...affecting totality duration is that the shadow travels slowest at noon, fastest near the beginning and end of the eclipse day. Earth rotates eastward at about 1,040 m.p.h. at the Equator. The moon's eastward orbit carries the lunar shadow in the same direction at just about twice that speed, so that it rapidly overtakes the terrestrial rotation. At noon, when the shadow is perpendicular, the speed is 1,060 m.p.h.; earlier and later, when the cone of darkness impinges at an angle, it goes faster-depending on the acuteness of the angle...
...crossing the International Date Line, the eclipse accomplished the feat-not rare for eclipses-of ending the day before it started. It began on Wednesday, finished on Tuesday. Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only...
...twice trouncing the highly favored Dartmouth nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field 9-8 and 4-2, the dope-up-setting Crimson toppled the league-leading Indians to third place. Two victories over the Elis will give the Mitchellmen undisputed possession of the championship...
...crews go to Red Top tomorrow and they will row there in the afternoon, and from then on twice daily until the races. The combination crews will race Thursday afternoon, June 24, while the other three will face the Elis on the next...