Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West, the University of California, last year's Pacific Coast Conference champion and Rose Bowl winner, having lost six of its 1937 team by graduation, looked as though it might have a tough struggle defending its title against Southern California, Oregon or Stanford...
...Professors Ernest Watson Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell Jr. (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week a far more searching study* was completed by Stanford University's famed Psychologist Lewis Madison Terman (intelligence tests). Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement for marital happiness. Highlights...
Professor Terman admits that his findings are merely straws in the wind, by no means conclusive. Much of his evidence is colored by his subjects' feelings and reticence. Moreover, he points out that findings might differ in other States than California, other groups than the middle class. But he holds that his test for predicting marital happiness has this much reliability: if an individual scores in the top quarter on the test, the chances are four out of five that his marriage will be average or above average in happiness...
...problem of using light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light...
...daily radiation output is usually measured with instruments called silver-disk pyrheliometers in which the sun's radiation is transformed into heat measurable in calories. A solar recording station should be high, dry, nearly dustless, nearly hazeless. The Smithsonian Institution has two solar outposts at Table Mountain in California and Mt. Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August...