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...solution offered by the higher reaches of science. In life, as in the research institute, the lines break down. The municipal architect must be a jack-of-all-trades within the orbit of his particular calling, able to judge, if he cannot actually execute, work of an electrical, mechanical or artistic nature, and of very varied content, ranging from the most technical to the most theoretical. Only in projects, patterned after this approach to reality, could Dr. Dewey see relief from latter-day conflicts...
...this "yardstick of space beyond the stars," to an unrelaxing effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years. In its pursuit he has literally turned the light on light, made it disclose new truths: about stars so huge that the earth and its whole orbit could be dropped in them and lost; about the ether; about the mysterious place in the universe toward which the sun, all the planets are hurrying at terrific speed...
Only 17 mi. in diameter, Eros is one of the smallest members of the large family of minor planets which number over 1,000. Almost all the group follow orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Eros, however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter, sometimes between Mars and Earth. Discovered in 1898 by Dr. Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, the small planet was given a masculine name because of its eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle...
...prides itself as "the Eastern city of the South." It boasts its 19 golf courses, its 28-story Magnolia building, its (oil-burning) spotlessness. But it was none of those things that put Dallas on the front page of every newspaper in the U. S. last week; it was Orbit chewing...
William E. Easterwood Jr. (colonel on Governor Dan Moody's staff) inherited wealth from his banker-father, made millions more from the southwest sales agency for Orbit gum. The Orbit business was bought by William Wrigley Jr., who continues to distribute it through the Easterwood agency. Touring Europe this summer with his wife, rich Col. Easterwood, publicity-loving, met Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte, offered them $25,000 if they would continue their Paris-New York flight to Dallas. According to one account, Col. Easterwood gave $75,000 to finance the entire trans-Atlantic flight, one-third...