Word: lyttleton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reviewing the whole field of astronomical advances made during the last year by astronomers all over the country. Shapley talked on a theory of R.A. Lyttleton of Princeton University who has suggested that formerly the sun had a companion star...
...pulled-out gas masses would be twirled between the two like a cigaret rolled between two human palms. Professor Edward Arthur Milne, famed relativist, suggested that there may be several different kinds of time, which would eliminate the paradox of the fast rotation speeds. Professor R. A. Lyttleton brushed off and brought out a theory originated by Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, which contemplated the sun as originally a double star, one of which was pulled away by a third star. Sir James Jeans seemed pleased by all three suggestions...
...Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion of Japan; and Gregory Mangin and George Lott were last week playing in the greatest single event of the tennis year, "the world's championship"at Wimbledon...