Word: corona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the Bucknell boys, most tourists and many Princeton residents consider the Institute for Advanced Study "that place where Einstein thinks." It is the truth, but not the whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...
Leaning against a clubhouse pillar, the bald little bookmaker in suede shoes chomped on a Corona and studied his manicured fingernails with ostentatious indifference. It was ten minutes before post time on the opening day of the brilliant $1,150,000 fall meeting at Belmont Park, New York State's biggest and handsomest track...
...Mountain last week to dedicate man's newest wonder, the 200-inch telescope. They were told that the giant eye would first be turned on the distant nebulae to test Astronomer Edwin Hubble's theory of the exploding universe. Dr. Hubble's first look at the Corona Borealis cluster (nebulae 120 million light-years away) astounded him. "We had hoped," said Hubble, "that the 200-inch would be this good...
...murder of gentle Senator Mauro Angulo Hernandez put many a Mexican in an eye-for-an-eye mood. To curb such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast...
Even though almost half of California's most valuable property, the sun, will be covered Whipple said last night that the Observatory was not providing for any data-collection even there, because of the predicted ring shape of the corona preventing good photography...