Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reaching Mexico City, where the sky is always blue and the air as sparkling as a pailletted gown, the Vagabond found little to deter his progress save a herd of lethargic cattle at every turn of the road, and, amidst every cluster of thatched huts, dozens of farrowing pigs that would scuttle under and around his car with uncivilized abandon...
...Hjalmar Schacht, who recently laid his resignation before Adolf Hitler (TIME, Sept. 27), significantly pointed up last week the curious fashion in which Nazidom is ruled. Unlike Mussolini, who is a Dictator in the classic sense, the Führer does not so much dictate as preside over a cluster of semiautonomous, mutually-jealous State and Party cliques, intervening chiefly when their affairs have reached a crisis. In his alternately moody or excited fashion Hitler talks with fewer leading men in a week than Mussolini calls in and actively bosses in a day. By last week German industrialists, whose every...
Photographer Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
...used in minicameras (f:1.5). The necessary time for spectographing remote nebulae has been cut in half, in one instance from 120 hours to 60 hours. "It is now possible," said Dr. Humason, "to observe faint objects which have heretofore seemed hopeless; one of these is a very faint cluster of nebulae in Ursa Major, probably one of the most remote clusters known...
Commonwealth College, founded in 1923 as a heterodox academy where left-wingers of all shades might work and study, was oddly built, and oddly remains, on a 320-acre tract near Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make...