Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infra-red rays pierce some clouds ; so Dr. Walter Baade of Mt. Wilson, Calif, photographed the proper part of the sky with infra-red light. His plate showed a dim, ghostly shape (see cut). Drs. Stebbins and Whitford, encouraged, used infra-red light of still longer wave length. They attached a photoelectric cell and an infra-red filter to the Mt. Wilson 60-inch telescope and swept it back & forth across the area where the nucleus ought to be. Their calculations showed a strong elliptical bulge. The happy astronomers did not claim that this was the Milky...
Singleminded research has taken Dr. Tom D. Spies (rhymes with fees) deeper and deeper into the dim regions of deficiency diseases. It has also led him to major medical discoveries. Last week in Science he announced a new one with a report that folic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, was a remedy for tropical sprue, a widespread disease in such teeming, undernourished lands as Puerto Rico...
...Mikolajczyk, undeterred by the dim prospect for an honest polling of the people's will, stuck to his guns. Said he: "If the referendum is honest we will have a definite no majority." But in any case, he added, the "people will know who really won, and so will the Government...
...Redesdale. She is the wife of the Hon. Peter Murray Rennell Rodd, who is an ex-lieutenant colonel in the Welsh Guards, a Sahara explorer, and a leftist journalist. Nancy, who now lives in Paris writing the English versions of Anglo-French movies, is politically pinkish, and takes a dim view of her sisters, who include: 1) Unity, famed Hitler-loving Wagnerian blonde; 2) Diana, wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World War II in jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action...
...answer was that George Stimpson was less a journalist than an encyclopedist who loved facts for their own sakes. He never learned the difference between a big fact and a little one; his head and his dim little office in the National Press Building were overstuffed with trivia. (His "A" file was crowded with items like "a in Thomas a Becket," and "Addison Sims of Seattle.") His cluttered, rolltop desk was buried under facts, but barren of news. He had a scholar's knowledge of Shakespeare, history and cats. Once he went to Europe just to track down elusive...