Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cunningham of Harvard Observatory, the comet last week was about 100,000,000 miles from earth, about the same distance from the sun. On Jan. 10 it comes closest to earth (54,000,000 miles), on Jan. 16 closest to the sun (33,000,000 miles). By then, on account of the sun's dazzling proximity, the show will be over...
...theory courses, it is hardly serious enough to demand rebuttal. The abstractions, the artificially simplified models, are merely the skeleton which the flesh of facts and complications is later to cover. In an elementary course in physics, for example, there are unreal hypothesis. Friction may be ignored, or no account may be taken of developments in quanta analysis. A subject has to start somewhere. It is better to start from the assumption that tractors can be converted into printing presses than from an involved discussion of the concepts of periods of production...
...Daughter-in-Law Winifred Wagner. Aged five at this time was Granddaughter Friedelind. She was dandled on Herr Hitler's knee while rumor that he was going to marry her mother rose but finally ebbed. When about the age of a U. S. debutante, Friedelind, by her own account, used to lunch now & then with the Führer and chirp all sorts of criticisms of Nazi doings, which sometimes put him in a rage...
...last fortnight he wrote on his editorial page: "We are making a special appeal to our subscribers ... on account of an unusual emergency. Within the past few weeks, the editor of this paper has found it necessary to consult eminent physicians ... on account of great physical suffering which has sapped our strength...
...Americans, filling gaps in the Harvard collections, were presented by Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29, of Corning, N. Y. Included in the gift were a first editionof Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse," 1650; a first edition of William Wood's "New Englands Prospect," 1634, the first detailed account of Massachusetts; and the only known copy of one of the earliest books printed by William Bradford in New York, "Some Seasonable Considerations for the good People of Connections...