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Meteors are of two types, the metallic and the stony. The stony, type rarely fall to earth but there are many examples of the metallic type which are often so large that they are not oxidized by the time they penetrate the earth's layer of atmosphere. The meteorite discovered by Admiral Peary on his North Pole Expedition in 1909 is of the metallic type, composed of 95 per cent iron and a small amount of nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large...
...director of Ohio Wesleyan's Perkins Observatory, where he got the same correlations. The past year sunspots decreased about 50%, radio reception improved about 400%. Meteoric Static. When the earth swings through a swarm of meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber Moffitt is using such a clock at Yerkes Observatory. Dr. Heber Doust Curtis will...
Into Asia Minor Dr. Breasted has followed his upward-struggling human animal, to uncover layer upon layer of successive towns-"layer cakes of civilization"-over a range of 5,000 years. By this time man had learned to write in cuneiforms, and in cuneiform tablets at Alishar Dr. Breasted brought to light the last remnants of Hittite speech. Meanwhile the Egyptians were going forward, had learned to write on the sides of their cedar coffins. Texts of these writings which the Institute has been translating for nine years, reveal, says Dr. Breasted, "the dawn of conscience." In Sakkara...
...Carroll's $4,500,000 cathedral was obviously not the work of restrained Architect Joseph Urban, who built the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was done by George Keister and Joseph J. Babolnay. Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake. A loudspeaker in the lobby urged latecomers to hurry...
...project has the approval of Profession, Nobility and Church. Layer of the cornerstone was Lord Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, baron and president of the Royal College of Surgeons. Conducting the service of dedication was Very Rev. William Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster...