Word: 1930s
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Fading Light. Astronomers have known of the existence of the star -dubbed MWC 349-since the 1930s. But it was not until this past year that researchers studying the star through the 2.3-meter (90 in.) infra-red telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory and the 91-cm. (36 in.) infra-red scope in Ames' Kuiper Airborne Observatory, realized how unusual it was. In simultaneous observations, the scientists discovered that the star, already ten times the size and 30 times the mass of the sun, was surrounded by a great glowing disc some 224 million km. (approximately...
...principles of constitutional study and who is wellversed in American constitutional history. Born in St. Louis, Mo., he came to teach at Harvard in 1939, after serving as law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and working in the Solicitor General's office during the 1930s...
...native of Atchinson, Kan., Manglesdorf has taught at Harvard since the 1930s. Between 1945 and 1967, he served as director of Harvard's Botanical Museum...
...four people in Molly tell some bitter home truths as well. The play takes place in the English countryside in the 1930s. Molly Tredley (Christina Pickles) is a fortyish woman with a frustrated and gnawing need for sex. Her husband Teddy (Michael Higgins), some 20 years her senior, is irascible, quite deaf and has always been impotent. His comforts are booze and the bantering palship of a spinster nurse-companion, Eve (Pauline Flanagan...
...ignored. They are swamped by their colleagues' bow waves. Giorgio Cavallon's career has been of this submerged kind. He is now 73, having been born near Vicenza in northern Italy in 1904, and he was one of the first abstract painters in New York in the 1930s, when painting abstract seemed automatically to consign an artist to ridicule and obscurity. In the '60s some of Cavallon's contemporaries, such as Milton Resnick or Lee Krasner, long written down as minor or fringe figures in the aesthetic star system, began to get their due; Cavallon...