Word: diminisher
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Colliding Galaxies. As Baade grew oM, his hair grew white, but his blue eyes were always bright and alert, and his good spirits and accomplishments in astronomy did not diminish. He re-examined the special stars that astronomers had used for a generation to measure great distances-and found that they had been misinterpreted. Thus the observed universe, through Baade's work, doubled in size. In 1952, in collaboration with Rudolph Minkowski (TIME, June 27), he found the first pair of galaxies in collision. This proved that galaxies do in fact collide. Baade therefore examined close clus ters...
...arms is truly terrifying. One may even presume that Russia came forward with the most sensational of the disarmament proposals -total disarmament in four years-just because it is terrifying. A dictator dearly loves a vacuum, and he loves to rattle people. Disarmament in this day would increase, not diminish, the danger of war. Today's weapons are too destructive to use, so they stand poised and quiet; this is our strange climate, when arms are safer than no arms. If modern arms make war unlikely, had we not better keep them until we have found the political means...
...almost touched the keys, at other times threw his head back in a kind of trancelike reverie. His bravura passages had a grandeur with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a feather lightness, and his crescendos or decrescendos were so tightly controlled that they seemed to swell and diminish like the modulations of a well-trained voice...
WHILE Bicks goes after price fixing and active restraints of trade, his main emphasis is on what he calls "preventive medicine"-challenging mergers and tie-ins that could diminish competition. Bigness alone does not worry...
...moves away. Thus, in what has become the standard example of the Doppler effect, a train whistle seems to rise and fall in pitch as the train goes by. Similarly, the signals from a satellite increase in frequency as they move nearer to a receiver on earth, diminish as they move on. By measuring the rate of change of these frequencies, a navigator can determine his exact distance from the satellite's path. And since Transit will also announce just where it will be on its path at any given moment, a computer on shipboard will be able...