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...Vagabond straightens up the litter of papers which bestrew his desk, tills his briar with a fresh load of Cake Box and settles back to watch the smoke sail up until the first pale faint pulse of dawn beats into the eastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Last week the astronomers notified the public that the hours from midnight to dawn during the week of November 11 would be the best possible time to watch the sky for the return of the long lost Leonids, a shower of meteors which, due to appear most brilliantly in 1932 should begin to be visible this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY SEES EIGHTY FOUR METEORS | 11/21/1929 | See Source »

...most important, if not the most spectacular, meteoric display of 30 years, according to Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory. The long missing Leonids, one of the most brilliant of meteor showers, should begin to be visible tomorrow night, between the hours of midnight and dawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star-Gazers May See Meteor Display Between Midnight and Dawn This Week--Astronomers Expect Return of Leonids | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...this score, we have stood for class and not university representation in the halls and not because other arrangements would be divisive factors in the life of the College. As the president of the Yale Club of New York has said, the day will in all probability never dawn when an undergraduate will feel inspired to lead a long cheer for John Smith quadrangle. It is highly doubtful if the residential halls will ever reach that stage of development, where they will overshadow the university which gives birth to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: King Gleamlet | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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