Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from a blackboard covered with difficult equations...
Supernovae are millions of times brighter than the sun-usually shedding more light than the millions of other stars in their nebula. About 15 have been recorded. Three years ago Dr. Zwicky, distinguished young Bulgarian-born astrophysicist who believes exploding stars may be a source of cosmic rays, brought the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly...
...16th magnitude in brightness. At first the cloud was classed simply as a "major irregularity." But the savants at Cambridge reasoned that it must contain at least 35,000 galaxies not apparent on the photographs, and that such density is not a mere irregularity of distribution but a cosmic entity. Although the great cloud is 100,000,000 light-years from Earth, beyond the reach of all but the most powerful telescopes, it stretches across nearly one-fourth of the sky's arc from horizon to horizon...
...high penetrating power. In Denver last week Dr. Street announced that it may be positive as well as negative, that in his opinion it is not a messenger from outer space but originates about ten miles up in the stratosphere, as the result of an impact delivered by a cosmic ray particle. What it is that gives birth to the new particle when struck is a matter of conjecture...
When he is not experimenting on cosmic rays, high-haired Director William Francis Gray Swann of Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation, plays a cello. Young William Edgar Danforth, his assistant, plays a cello too. Both are mainstays of the Swarthmore (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer organization of about 40 men and women who play good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master...