Word: blob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight a 36-year-old amateur astronomer scrutinized the northern sky through his 6-in. telescope. Ten degrees from the North Star he spotted an unfamiliar object, below naked-eye visibility. At that location his charts showed no star, no nebula. Amateur Astronomer Leslie C. Peltier watched the tiny blob of light for five hours. In that time it moved sufficiently far to betray itself as a comet. To Harvard Observatory, whose officials knew his name very well, Peltier sent a telegram. One of Harvard's big telescopes swung up to confirm the find. Back to Delphos went another...
Poise a fountain pen above the middle of a map of South America, jiggle the lever until a blob of ink falls and you have Paraguay, an irregular region about 200 miles wide and 300 miles long in the middle of the continent. For about a month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator...
...heavens in the raiment of a beggar" was related by him last week at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found...
...year, Texas Guinan dramatically made the nation aware of an insidious epidemic which plagued the first summer of the Century of Progress (TIME. Nov. 20). Everyone who had been in Chicago, particularly everyone who had eaten in the Congress or Auditorium hotels there, worried for months about a tiny blob called Entamcba histolytica. Doctors would advise them to continue to worry. For, although as an aftermath of the Chicago dysentery outbreak, Soo were known to be infected and 50 to have died, Entameba histolytica may lie dormant for months or years. Cases, some of them traceable directly to Chicago...
Visible Atoms. Academy members had the privilege of beholding, projected on a screen, photographs of three kinds of atoms. The helium atom appeared as a vague blob of electricity. In the neon atom the inner & outer groups of orbital electrons were clearly distinguishable. In the argon atom the inner and middle electron groups showed as one blurred ring, but separate from the outer group. The images were composite photographs of billions of atoms resolved into single pictures by photographing a revolving plate the shape of which was determined by x-ray diffraction. Though indirect, complex and laborious, the method...