Search Details

Word: dwarf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...hasty attempt to deprecate the success of Russia's man-carrying spaceship, President Kennedy got lost in an old scientific daydream. Cheap fresh water extracted from salt water, he said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saline Solution? | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Dwarfs & Princelings. In Madrid his colors gradually brightened, but the lyric realism remained. While Rubens, who spent nine months at the Spanish court, tried to puff up his noble and royal subjects by surrounding them with allegorical figures, Velásquez painted them exactly as they were. His figures stand out against subdued or neutral backgrounds, but whether dwarf or princeling or court jester, they are full-fledged individuals, painted without adornment and without malice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: WITH AFFECTION AND RESPEC | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Companion. The first white dwarf was found when mid-19th century astronomers noticed that Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, wobbles slightly, and theorized that it revolves around another star too close and dim to be seen separately. Later astronomers, using more sophisticated telescopes to eliminate the glare, finally picked out the other star nestling close to Sirius, and gradually accumulated some surprising information about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dimmest Dwarf | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Luyten does not know definitely the size or mass of his latest white dwarf, but he believes that it weighs at least ten tons, or 20,000 lbs., per cubic inch. It could conceivably weigh as much as 1,000 tons per cubic inch, in which case a chunk of star no bigger than a grapefruit would weigh more than the 84,000-ton Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dimmest Dwarf | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...ultimate fate of a white dwarf, says Dr. Luyten, is to grow slowly dimmer and smaller. After billions of years, its light will change from white to yellow, then to red. Eventually it will die, and the product will be a black dwarf: a cold sphere of degenerate matter weighing as much as the sun, but smaller than most planets and giving no light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dimmest Dwarf | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Previous | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next