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Next day Col. Miller changed his mind, went to the courthouse at Newkirk, posted $16,000 to keep the peace. "He's a sick man," said Prosecutor Bruce Potter. The Colonel's lawyers prepared to appeal to President Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation to save...
...Bruce C. Hopper, assistant professor of Government, will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...Bruce Gift...
...generous gift of $50,000 from Miss Catherine Bruce of New York City, a 24-inch Doublet was ordered by Professor Pickering from Alvan Clarke and Sons, and was sent to the southern station at Arequipa, Peru, elevation 8000 feet. Although this unprecedented size for a doublet was strongly criticized in those days, the glass has been effective and is responsible for 16,000 negatives in the Harvard collection, most of them 14 by 17 inches in size...
...revelations from the Bruce plates include the faint ninth satellite of Saturn, Phoebe, numerous characteristics of the Magellanic Clouds, the discovery in them of 2000 variables and the "Period Luminosity" relation (one of the most efficient measuring tapes for the scale of the universe). At least 30,000 spiral nebulse have also been located by means of the Bruce Telescope...