Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently the work of destruction was deliberately planned and deliberately carried out. It was a crusade of vengeance for the execution two weeks ago of Catholic plotters in Guadalajara. The Rev. J. M. Vega, a priest well known in Guadalajara, who led the hills-men, said to passengers who spoke to him while the pillage was continuing: 'The hand of God has descended upon this train. The Almighty has smitten...
...Charles Greeley Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution who last Spring made scientific history with his measurements of the sun's heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, analyzed the heat of nine other great stars-Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Alpha Herculis, Beta Pegasi. He employs the Nichols radiometer, a delicate instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which...
...expected that the heat from stars of the same color type would be greatest in the same parts of their spectra, but surprising differences were found. Vega and Sirius are both blue-white stars, but the maximum heat of Vega is much farther toward the violet than that of Sirius. Rigel (blue) shows two maxima, one of which is in the infrared rays, invisible to the human eye. The apparatus detects differences of a hundred-millionth of a degree of heat. That is not enough, say the astronomers. It must be sharpened to a thousand-millionth, and many fainter stars...
Perhaps the most striking example of productivity is furnished by the Spanish author, Lope de Vega. This remarkable man turned out more than 1,800 plays in the 73 years of his life, and supplemented these by 400-odd "autos sacrementales". He occupied as position of literary dictator similar to that held by Voltaire at a later date and his death was widely mourned as a national calamity. But few men have heard of this author--once universally famous--except as a mere figure in histories of literature. His plays--all but two or three-have been forgotten. And parallel...
...Fabian Vega Garcia Jr. 1L., Litt.B., LL. D., Spanish...