Word: bluer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy) but was introducing the latest style in camouflage, a solid, sooty, flat grey...
...cure, and it is not one that concerns the University. The only charge that the Dean's Office can legitimately lay on House doorsteps is that their dances bring undue notoriety to the College. It should be remembered, however, that this odor of debauchery is smelled only by the bluer noses of Boston society, and is nothing to the nation-wide publicity that would attend a University "trot...
...nebula could be drawn from its color. If the nebular material were microscopically fine, the light of Antares would be reddened, just as the sun is reddened when it shines through a long slope of the hazy atmosphere at evening. Also, the light from the nebula would be made bluer by selective scattering of the same kind which makes the earth's sky blue.* Actually, the color of the star and that of the nebula are almost identical. Therefore the nebular fragments must be big enough to reflect the light intact-as big as sand grains, peas, marbles, melons...
...earthshine" and by inferring additional details from the known phenomena of optics, astronomers can form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which by spectroscopic analysis he finds, with croaks of envy, to be oceans of water. Heavily...
...examination of the Jonkers, London experts last week threw doubt on the first theory that it had once been a chip of the Cullinan, world's No. 1 diamond, found in 1905 only three miles from Jonkers' diggings. The Jonkers is bluer and purer, so pure that Diamond Corp. officials were hoping someone rich and ostentatious would come forward to buy it as a single stone. Otherwise it will be sent, possibly to Amsterdam, to be cut up into small diamonds to fit smaller purses...