Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer who sees perhaps at the most a dozen Eastern football games picking a fair and representative Al-American eleven. Even though a staff of 500 critics may assist him it is hard to argue relative merits on paper. One has to see the men in action. At any rate it is certain that most of the experts took one on the chin as a result of the finale of the 1929 season...
...which go to form a system much in the shape of a giant millstone. Determining the thickest part of the Milky Way, Dr. Shapley then determined that the star Sagiltarins was the approximate center of this galactic system, and that we on earth are travelling around Sagittarius at the rate of 120 miles per second...
...relation, through the average brightness, to the distance of the Cepheids from us. In this way he has calculated that the large Magellanic cloud is 86,000 light years away from us, a light year being the distance that a ray of light travels in a year at the rate of 186,000 miles per second. In the Kapteyn Universe, it was held that there was no star over 35,000 light years away...