Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Star photographs made at the Harvard astronomy station in South Africa reveal an unusual distribution of Cepheid variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, neighbor star system of the Milky Way. There is a "peculiar concentration" of the larger, longer-period Cepheid variable stars in regions where the star population is dense, Shapley said. Cepheids fluctuate in brightness in periods ranging from a few hours to about fifty days; their mass is four to five times that...
Troubled political conditions in the world have brought a host of foreign students to the Committee on the Use of English this year, according to Dudley H. Cloud, Secretary to the Committee...
...past years Cloud and the Committee have had only about four or five struggling foreigners requesting aid for their English, but this year the number has grown to twenty. These students come from the Far East, Europe, and South America...
...Some are in the kindergarten stage and others are extremely advanced; all are serious in their work. The difficulties of a Chinese studying German in a class conducted in English are terrific," Cloud points...
Because of the varied nationalities and languages of his students, he can not give group courses in English. Cloud had to adopt the system of giving individual instruction to each foreigner. Coupled with a 100 per cent increase in American students who have been reported for faulty English this year, this new influx of foreigners into Holyoko 18 has produced great activity for the Committee...