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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent and as yet unpublished studies of a star cloud in Aquila show that practically all the stars are of the same type as the sun--a very unusual circumstance, since Milky Way stars elsewhere have mainly been of the hotter classes. It is unknown whether this anomalous result, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROBLEM OF ORIGIN OF SUN'S PLANETS STILL BAFFLES SCIENTISTS | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

Doing the thing in a big way, Nebraskans sent to President Hoover an airmail letter 3 ft. x 2 ft. inviting him to Nebraska's Diamond Jubilee celebration. The President sent regrets, but tens of thousands of other citizens from nearly every State, from Canada, from Alaska, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nebraska's 75th | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Then the fun began. By fives and tens of thousands, up went the price. Clemenceau each time explaining that the Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

In years past, the ushers for the affairs have been picked at random from the students. This season, however, they are to be selected through James Roosevelt 30, who has been placed in charge of ushers at the tens.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST OF UNIVERSITY TEAS WILL BE HELD AT FOGG-TODAY | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

The old custom of holding the University tens in the Living Room of the Union will not be entirely given up this year, although, like the first, a number will be given in other large meeting rooms of the University.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST OF UNIVERSITY TEAS WILL BE HELD AT FOGG-TODAY | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

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