Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...device is primarily a photoelectric eye which is attached to the rim of the patient's ear; it reacts to the color of the blood in the ear: bright red when there is enough oxygen, darker as the oxygen diminishes. A year ago Charles F. ("Boss Ket") Kettering,* former head of the General Motors Research Laboratories, joined the team to iron out some technical bugs...
...Bright & Bubbling. The festival was not merely a Dutch exposition. Jennie Tourel, perhaps the finest Carmen now singing, gave a performance in the role. The polished Vienna State Opera gave a bright and bubbling performance of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and was scheduled to perform Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Der Rosenkavalier before the festival ends next week...
Most stars are too faint to suit astronomers, but the sun is too bright. Astronomers have been able to analyze the sun's light and photograph the spots that cruise in mysterious cycles across its face. But until recently, their observations have been limited mostly to the brilliant surface itself. Except during total eclipses, the details of the sun's atmosphere have been lost in its glare...
Prominences. Other new instruments, which black out the sun's bright disc, leaving only the atmosphere around it, show even more startling things. The surface of the sun, even far from the "mountains," is not smooth. It is covered with tiny "spicules" that jet up suddenly. Tiny only "in the solar sense," they are several hundred miles in diameter and 5,000 to 10,000 miles high. They lick up from the surface and fade away in an average of about five minutes...
...field. He is a musicologist whose edition of Bach's organ works is a standard text; his biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical scholar whose historical criticism of the New Testament, early in this century, turned...