Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rarely given a first-rate showing on Broadway until some actor promotes it as a vehicle for his own glorification. Shakespeare for itself, no). The Workshop did for "Troilus and Cressida" what museum workers have done for old masters; they scraped away the centuries' accumulated alterations, "improvements," and dust; they restored it to its natural vigor and color. It was the Workshop's most noble effort, and, surprisingly enough, one that proved commercially ennobling, also...
...measures the distance of a star by studying its color, which changes as the light passes through the dust clouds of space. Shapley looks at variable stars, which grow brighter and dimmer with a regular period. This period often depends on the absolute brightness of the star; when Shapley knows the absolute brightness and the brightness as seen from the earth, he can easily determine the star's distance...
This is the third in a series of four articles on Harvard's scientists and what they are doing. It covers the Geology and Astronomy Departments. system; meters, comets, and dust. A caravan of trucks--"Whipple's Wagon Train"--is now touring the Southwest, snapping pictures of meteors every night to discover their evolution and habits...
...Open Door was closing fast in China. Once the Reds had slammed it shut, the dust of history would settle on half a century of Western endeavor and propagation of Western ideals on Asia's mainland. Watching the relentless march of the Communists below the Yangtze and south across prostrate China, the U.S. wondered: What next in Asia...
...food shop, coolies carrying fat white sacks bulldozed their way through the crowd, their sweaty faces caked with flour dust. One man, who was emptyhanded, jumped onto the back of a little fellow lugging a full sack. They rolled together in the gutter. When an American photographer started to take a picture, a white-faced Chinese cried out: 'No, no. You must not. This is a disgrace...