Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a crude shelter in the middle of a cornfield near Delphos, Ohio, one evening last fortnight a 36-year-old amateur astronomer scrutinized the northern sky through his 6-in. telescope. Ten degrees from the North Star he spotted an unfamiliar object, below naked-eye visibility. At that location his charts showed no star, no nebula. Amateur Astronomer Leslie C. Peltier watched the tiny blob of light for five hours. In that time it moved sufficiently far to betray itself as a comet. To Harvard Observatory, whose officials knew his name very well, Peltier sent a telegram...
...author attempts to trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
...wishes to exercise his lungs may speak. The Union, however, doesn't seem to realize that it is a little too late to withdraw Harvard's delegates from the Heldelberg gathering, and it presumes that President Conant and the Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation in Germany. To withdraw from the 550th anniversary celebration of a University which has stood, until recently, for the very best that education has to offer, would be an act of supreme discourtesy to Heidelberg and to the reputation that it has built up over five...
...hard to understand in "The Singing Kid" why she runs away with his lawyer leaving Al to face the T Men from the Internal Revenue Department. But Claire Dodd, who once again is the unfaithful, deceitful woman does just that with Lyle Talbot, who is cast in the unfamiliar role of the unpleasant attorney...
...film is an English one, and the rest of the cast is unfamiliar to American audiences. It gives Miss Bergner most competent and sympathetic support, of which, however, she needs very little. The program is shared with "The Seeing Eye," showing how German shepherd dogs are trained to lead the blind; "Mexican Idyl," a Musical Mood in technicolor, and Fox Movietone News. And then, at 12.45 every day this week, there is to be heard the Shostakovitch Symphony No.1, recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski...