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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...achievement reflecting the highest honor on the daring of the young German armed forces...
Last week, Astrophysicist Donald Howard Menzel of Harvard announced construction plans for the world's highest astronomical station to house the first U. S. coronagraph. Site of the new observatory is Climax, Colo., a hamlet of 1,500 souls, perched 11,300 feet high on a pass of the Great Divide. Chief advantage of Climax is a daily cloudburst, which lasts about an hour, washes the sky an intense blue, clear as any in the Western Hemisphere. No drifting motes of dust can settle on the coronagraph lens to mar the view...
...Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl of U. S. letters...
...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...
...University is going to erect the world's highest astronomical observatory this summer at Fremont Pass, Colorado, it was announced yesterday...