Word: beaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio star in the Bootes constellation. Radio astronomy was then too crude to give accurate directions-and when Minkowski tried to photograph the phenomenon with Palomar's telescope, he found nothing. But new radio telescopes at Cambridge and in Owens Valley, Calif, recently drew an accurate bead on the radio star in Bootes. Minkowski pointed the Palomar telescope at the spot indicated. And after exposing a photographic plate for two hours, he got his picture of two big galaxies in collision...
...early 20th century, middle-class Suburbia was a reality in England, and Social Historian C.F.G. Masterman was perhaps the first of a legion of urban critics to draw a bead on it. Each little red house, he wrote in 1909, "boasts its pleasant drawing room, its bow window, its little front garden . . . The women, with their single domestic servants, now so difficult to get. and so exacting when found, find time hangs rather heavy on their hands. But there are excursions to shopping centers in the West End and pious sociabilities, occasional theater visits and the interests of home...