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...respect, calls his monarch "Sir." The King, in his chats with Churchill, sometimes displays the British humor which lightens his otherwise grey job. When Winston is especially ebullient, George will remind him that, after all, the most brilliant of Prime Ministers merely moves within the monarchy's ancient orbit...
...this furtive, costly traffic, Germany and Japan have a dead-pan trade agreement, calling for German delivery of machine tools, sample tanks and planes, blueprints and technicians; Japanese delivery of rubber, tin, tungsten, quinine, opium, edible oils. But the Japs, hard-pressed for shipping in their own orbit, are welshing; most blockade-running is done by Germans...
...Black Shirt. Successively a Conservative, Laborite and Socialist, Sir Oswald emerged in 1932 as the firebrand founder of the blackshirted British Union of Fascists. He broadcast his admiration for his friends Hitler and Mussolini, tried to put his country in the Axis orbit. His hoodlums attacked labor meetings, were attacked in turn. Wherever Sir Oswald went, a kind of hate rose that was strange to Britain...
Swarthmore's Strand picked up the new planet while measuring the orbits of a double star in the constellation Cygnus. He found that in their circlings around each other the two stars deviated from the expected path in regular "oscillations" which could be explained only by the gravitational pull of a third body on them (as the Earth's orbit around the Sun is affected by the Moon). By measuring these deviations, he determined that their unseen companion was a body with about 16 times the mass of Jupiter (largest solar planet), that it revolved around...
Whipple explained that although the celestial wanderer which he discovered last December had been acting queerly, it was still the same old comet. Observatories in England have reported that the body has been much brighter than its supposed orbit would indicate, but Whipple professed ignorance of the subject. The comet is rather small, as comets go, with a tail approximately one million miles in length, but could be seen with ordinary field glasses on a clear night...