Word: millions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen tremendous advances in ophthalmology. Though I hold no brief for any one of them, there are several men in this country who have been leaders in this movement-among them Dr. de Schweinitz, who gets honorable mention being "also the son of a bishop." A gift of four million dollars, the reward of a fashionable practice, may carry with it notoriety, but it does not make a man great. If you can convince me that your acclaim is well grounded, I shall also believe that Bernarr Macfadden i< the greatest journalist of the country. A. M. CULLER...
Attendance in the third week of the wonder totalled well above a million. The crowds included Chinese, Jews, Irish, Gypsies, Southerners, Protestants, Boxer Jack Sharkey, Negro Boxer Sam Langford. So overrun was the cemetery that other graves were sadly desecrated, other funerals made impossible. Authorities had limited miracle-seeking hours between 7 a. m. and 5 p. m., then from...
...stone was one that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric...
...known systems of material bodies, from that of the atom which is a millionth of a millionth of an inch to the cloud of super-galaxies of a thousand million, trillion miles have been classified for the first time according to mass by Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard's Astronomical Observatory. The classification comes as a result of long research and careful investigation by Professor Shapley...
...groups of super-galaxies are coming to light in the comprehensive survey of external systems, one of the most conspicuous cases being a pair of super-galaxies in Coma-Virgo at a distance of about one hundred and fifty million light years...