Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found, come from the Milky Way (the crowded inner section of the galaxy or star-cloud in which the sun is one star). Most galaxies have a dense central nucleus, but the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy (if one exists) is hidden by clouds of dust which block its light. . Reber turned his radio telescope on the place where the nucleus ought to be, and got a "bulge" of powerful radio energy. The nucleus does exist, he concluded, and is sending radio waves right on through the dust...
...stockholder of Mission, Skelly brought two federal court suits to block the merger. He charged that Getty and other Pacific Western stockholders would get $93 million in cash for their stock (Getty's share: $79 million) while Mission stockholders would only get Sunray common stock, six shares for one of Mission. Sunray stock, said Skelly, would be of "questionable value" when the merger put $125 million of debts and senior securities ahead of the common stock. Getty's reply was that, measured by current market prices of the two stocks, Mission stockholders would get far more...
...block were about $200,000 worth of paintings, including items from the collections of Lord Halifax, Lord Winterton and the estate of the late Lord Rothermere. As usual, Sir Alec Martin, the 63-year-old managing director of Christie's, conducted the auction himself. Last week, the sale ended, he was able to report that Christie's had all but wound up one of its busiest years since...
Drops of Blood. Anguish at Christie's has not always been confined to those who have been forced to sell. When Lord Nelson heard that a portrait of Lady Hamilton was to go on the block, he wrote a desperate note to his Emma: "But you are at auction. Good God! My blood boils." He succeeded in buying the picture (for ?300) before the auction day, and recorded happily that "I should have bought it . . . if it had cost me 300 drops of blood...
...magnet (whose concentrated field will make electrified particles whirl in obedient circles) has been assembled out of 60-ton steel chunks. The drum-shaped pole pieces in the center will be wound with coils containing 150 tons of copper. The building, to be banked with earth to block deadly radiation, is finished...