Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willem de Sitter though not generally known in America, is the foremost astronomer of the Continent. His current visit to Cambridge is of interest by virtue of his significant and authoritative refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The Dutch scientist conceives the universe as being slowly "blown up like a soap-bubble," an idea even more bewildering to the layman than Einstein's "warped space." Though this question is complex enough to make even astronomers' heads swim, its nevertheless illustrative of other disputes that should concern the average man and his beliefs...
...Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall the benign nanny goat that provides Mahatma Gandhi with his goat's milk defeated all comers in her class, had a blue ribbon hung about her scrawny neck and was officially named "Mahatma." Chief concrete result of the human Mahatma's visit is that in London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard to get and cost about four shillings...
...Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Manila, Bangkok (and a visit to King Prajadhipok), and west via the Arabian Sea and the Suez Canal. In some of the islands Julius Fleischmann will act as a special representative of the U. S. Department of Commerce, drumming up trade and setting an example of usefulness to other yacht-cruisers...
...sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap. No further rude behavior interrupted Mosolow's Soviet Iron Foundry, a bombastic souvenir of Stokowski's recent Russian visit, or Abraham Lincoln, a rambling panegyric by Robert Russell Bennett, a Kansas City native...
Publicity-wise Major Doolittle had made his first stop at Washington so the flight could be the first to link all three North American capitals in a single day. That visit cost him 40 min. flying time while he hunted in vain for fog-bound Bolling Field, finally put down on Washington-Hoover Airport. He stopped for fuel twice again, at Birmingham and Corpus Christi, Tex. The whole day's 2,500-mi. flight he described as "uninteresting" save for the thrill of landing his high speed plane in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City...