Word: blotching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Must the ghost of Harvard return from the grave to render him his due? It is an insult to him and a slothful blotch on the self-respect of his current sons not to keep him polished up in winter as in spring...
...check through the Harvard library of star photographs revealed that the group appeared also on long-exposure plates made in 1908, but only as a very faint patch of light, doubtlessly mistaken by the observers for general background unevenness or a faint blotch in the photographic emulsion...
...Harry LawIon, a free-lance astronomer of New Orleans, succeeded in getting on Associated Press wires a story that he had found a sunspot 125,000 miles long. Few days later Mr. Lawton wrote to the Naval Observatory in Washington, chided it for not publicizing this gigantic blotch. Observatory officials coughed politely, admitted sighting an unusually large crop of spots but none of the size mentioned by Lawton, declined to engage in controversy with him pending scrutiny of his scientific credentials...
When Senator Couzens first introduced this resolution, his own State of Michigan was the biggest, blackest blotch on the banking map of the U. S. When S. J. R. 256 reached President Hoover's desk a week later, the banking map was badly pockmarked with many another big black spot. Behind the Michigan moratorium, the effects of which were just beginning to be felt elsewhere, lay three grinding years of Depression and 5,096 bank failures throughout the U. S. Nevada had clapped its bank doors shut in self-protection, Louisiana had taken an extra-legal breathing spell. Instead...
...Lowell built with his own money at clear-aired Flagstaff, Ariz., have been pointing their telescopes to the path in the skies where he had said his planet would be moving. The night of last Jan. 21, Clyde W. Tombaugh, 24, an assistant at the observatory, saw a strange blotch of light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. Dr. Slipher joyfully notified his younger brother, Earl Carl Slipher, and the rest of the staff, including Carl Otto Lampland. They were quite excited. Here visibly was Percival Lowell's proof...