Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alpha Centauri was only 4.16 light-years away. For 23 years, up to last week, that star, appropriately called Proxima Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand miles a day would get there in 60 million years...
Professor Gerard Pieter Kuiper found that Wolf 424 has an unusual "very late M-type" spectrum which indicates that the star is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun. Its apparent magnitude is 11.8, which is about six magnitudes be low the limit of naked-eye visibility. Comparison of the apparent with the intrinsic brightness yielded the distance...
...same time it was announced that Richard B. Wolf '41, of New York City, was the winner of the Jeremy Belknap prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first year student in Harvard College...
That copper-colored aborigine was pretty emphatic about being called Chief Wolf Tooth when he was introduced to Mayor LaGuardia as "Mr. Hawks." I overheard it because I was sitting just behind the two, where, incidentally, I shamelessly eavesdropped their entire conversation. Wolf Tooth explained that he had graduated from Carlisle in 1879 and that he had visited Mayor LaGuardia's city "long time ago." He still remembered the State of Liberty and he fought in his tribe's last battle against the white men. After hearing all this in perfectly good English, I was somewhat puzzled...
...minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome's airport. On one side of this half-mile-square field naval cadets dressed & undressed a full-rigged ship (dummy). Fascist youths 50,000 strong, from 6-year-old Sons of the Wolf to 18-year-old Young Fascists, drilled to the music of 2,600 trumpets which at one point blew the Wedding March from Lohengrin. This caused irrepressible Italians to crack of the Dictators: "Are they exchanging wedding rings...