Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casting around for a layman's analogy, Hubble compared the exploding universe to a rubber balloon with small dots (representing nebulae) spaced equally far apart on its surface. When the balloon is blown up larger, each dot becomes farther from every other dot. Place an observer on any dot, and he will see the same picture. Every other dot-nebula will be moving away from...
...Dot . . . Dot. Jut-jawed Ana is a booming, passionate orator. When shouting to a big audience, her greying, boy-bobbed hair flops about her face. She usually wears quiet, expensively tailored dresses in solid colors. Occasionally, at a party, she comes out in something gayer, but she never wears jewelry...
...just about the only expert voice to predict a win for the Green. The Globe's Hal Knees reasserted the 6.5 margin and seems inclined to string along with the local lads as does ex-tackle Vern Miller '42, who claims that "in the sea of new faces that dot the grid landscape is Cambridge lies the secret of Harvard's characterization as a November team...
...eleven men who line up against the Crimson at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon will be drawn from a huge and sprawling University of 25,725 students whose seven undergraduates and five graduate schools dot the entire Boston area all the way from Beacon Hill to the Harvard Square area...
Thread is used for the tiny Boston El carlines down Massachusetts Avenue, while fresh seaweed, procured every two weeks, makes the tiny trees which, dot the Yard and nearby streets...