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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whirling Discs. But Kant's hypothesis was not entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...proto-planets" (as Kuiper calls the eddies) condensed into planets, each with a disc of loose material around it. Then the planets' discs turned into satellites. One planet, Saturn, retains part of its disc as the famous rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...course there is more than just television inside the WBZ center; but the other departments are all small and self-contained. In the rear are five radio studios, a newsroom, and a disc jockey's library for the few low-budget studio programs that supplement NBC network shows. Downstairs the large equipment room holds a relay to the radio transmitter at Hull, Mass., and, of course, the transmitter which feeds TV and FM through cables up the tower...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

After deciphering the document and verifying its authenticity, Dr. Eulalia Guzman, the National Museum's chief of historical research, led an expedition to Ixcateopan. There, beneath the altar of Santa Maria de Asuncion, diggers uncovered a huge stone slab with a large oval copper disc. Under a small cross at the top were the words Senor y Rey. Beneath them was the name Coatemo (one of the alternate spellings of Cuauhtemoc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Senor y Rey | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...network-owned Station KNBC in San Francisco for a test run. Perhaps in deference to NBC's own policy manual (under the heading: "Business Classifications Unacceptable on NBC" it lists wines and liquor), NBC stipulated that Schenley commercials could be broadcast only after midnight on a disc-jockey show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Amber Light | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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