Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox appears to us. The veteran newsman yearns for the freedom to tell his hard-won truth and save the world. Your college editor, with all the old-fashioned freedoms at his disposal, lots them go; he is just too inexperienced to know and use them. I wish to dust off some old chestnuts for the present editors of the CRIMSON. The world is moving fast and will not wait. Freedom of the press carries with it the heavy responsibility for alert, thorough coverage of the news and thoughtful opinion, a responsibility that will permit no boundaries to effort. Gentlemen...
...really is happening) Dr. Hubble does not know. The 100-in. telescope could not see far enough to give him the data he needed. The new 200-incher may show Hubble and his fellow men (who live on an earth that is only a speck of dust in one of the nebulae) whether the universe is "exploding"-or doing something quite different...
Eliot House men with club ties and red-rimmed eyes are exploring Widener Reading Room and learning how to fill out book slips. The pinball machines stand solemnly in their places, gathering dust but no nickels...
...vaudeville team, Paramount's Gold Dust twins stage a hoary entangled-arms routine which, unfortunately, stayed behind when Wheeler and Woolsey left Hollywood by popular request around 1935. And when they combine forces with a trio of Latin musicians for a five-man hat-mixup act, the result is probably the unfunniest three minutes in film history, not excepting the newsreel shots of Pearl Harbor...
...Strong broadcasts, he found, come from the Milky Way (the crowded inner section of the galaxy or star-cloud in which the sun is one star). Most galaxies have a dense central nucleus, but the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy (if one exists) is hidden by clouds of dust which block its light. . Reber turned his radio telescope on the place where the nucleus ought to be, and got a "bulge" of powerful radio energy. The nucleus does exist, he concluded, and is sending radio waves right on through the dust...