Giant Telescope to Be Ready Next Year
The 82 inch mirror for the McDonald Observatory in Texas is nearly finished being ground in Cleveland and will be tested early next year at Mt Locke. The project is a joint Texas and Chicago effort. the dome and offices near completion, with Chicago adding astronomy staff including Seyfert and Rudnick. The new telescope will be second largest briefly after Mt Wilson's 100 inch instrument, and red nebulae observations have already yielded first evidence.
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Corning
N. Y
Cleveland
Mt. Wilson Observatory
University of Texas
William J. McDonald
University of Chicago
H. Y. Benedict
J. H. L. Stark
Board of Regents
G. P. Kuiper
University of Leyden
Lick Observatory
Bengt Stromgren
University of Copenhagen
S. Chandrasekhar
Madras
India
Cambridge University
Harvard
Philip C. Keenan
Perkins Observatory
Ohio State
Ohio Wesleyan
Carl K. Seyfert
Harvard Observatory
Paul Rudnick
Mt. Locke
Yerkes
McDonald Observatory
Two-Yard Shirt Tails Evade Singapore Duty
Singapore customs faced a puzzle over shirt tails measuring two yards as a shipment arrived. Officials allowed entry after discussion while an inquiry into a reasonable tail length was ordered. Merchants say Japanese exporters use double-size garments to bypass textile quotas by selling garments in yard pieces after standed.
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Singapore
Love and Hunger as Life Poles in Anatole France
An excerpt discusses love and hunger as two poles shaping human life. It argues that love proves meaningful only when it elevates the soul toward devotion, making love a defining force in character and moral growth.
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Anatole France
Be a good man my dear Love and humanize your life
The piece muses on love as a human and spiritual force. It argues that true love requires personality sharing and living by higher values, or it risks loneliness and loss of inspiration. It contrasts earthly hunger with divine love and urges practicing responsibility and virtue.
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Walter Scott
Lockhart
Trous ehold by Lydia Le Baron Walker
Parting guests gracefully is as much an accomplishment as welcoming them. Hostess should state if longer stay is possible, or arrange a smooth departure with thoughtful care and hospitality. The article also urges guiding thoughts toward positive, constructive mental life. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Laurel as emblem of victory across eras
The laurel symbolized victory and clemency in Greek and Roman tradition. Poets, orators, philosophers, rulers, priests, and warriors wore laurel wreaths to mark great deeds.
Understanding weight gain and thyroid impact on health
The article explains that weight gain depends on underlying conditions such as overactive thyroid, insufficient rest, infections, and sleep quality. It notes that reducing food intake doesn't always raise weight for underweights, while increasing calories to around 4000 per day can help, with sample meal ideas and timing to boost appetite.
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WNU
Austrian Count Andrassy Forms Meerschaum Pipe Craft
In 1723 the Austrian Count Andrassy identified light porous meerschaum clay as suitable for pipe making. Vienna developed into a hub for meerschaum craft with ornamental carvings and jeweled pieces earning thousands of dollars.
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Andrassy
Vienna
Postum Free Week Offer Boosts Health Claim
The Postum Company offers a full week’s supply of Postum free to any reader who writes for it, promising health benefits. This advertisement appears elsewhere in the paper.
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Postum Company
Glover’s
Glover
Reverence and Equality Esteem Inspire Friendship
Reverence and Equality Esteem are described as guiding forces. Friendship is linked to Reverence, while passionate love is described as born from Equality, with reverence seen as its twin and equality as its parent.
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