Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statistics of the distribution of distances and relative magnitudes in double stars indicate that since their origin the masses of the stars could not decrease appreciably, and that the drop in luminosity of an average star of the dwarf branch cannot exceed half a magnitude since its origin, instead of the expected six magnitudes or more, and the probable value of the drop in luminosity is zero...
...dead' spots, and generally improve the pictures distributed." A live spot in Frankenstein as revealed by the "Lie-Detector": one in which the ugly face of Frankenstein's dwarfish assistant pops up from behind a graveyard fence. Dead spots: the reappearance of the dwarf's face in subsequent scenes when familiarity has made it less frightening...
Moored side by side, the Akron will dwarf the Los Angeles. She will make the Graf look slender; only 9 ft. longer, the Akron is 32.9 ft. bigger in diameter and fatter throughout than the pencil-shaped Graf. Another difference between the two old ships and the new one will be the projection of eight propellers, four from each of the Akron's flanks, instead of the five large "eggs" (gondolas), each of which houses an engine on the Los Angeles and the Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors...
Alethea could never understand the violence of Nicholas's feeling until one day his mother arrived from Australia. She was a hideous dwarf. Nicholas hated her, hated the thought that he had dwarf's blood in his veins, was morbidly afraid he himself had a dwarf's soul in a man's body. After a terrible scene Alethea took the little boy and ran away to her aunt in Germany. Though eventually she went back to her husband, for years she did not dare have her son in the same house with him. The boy grew up with a talent...
...Dwarf's Blood is the July choice of the Literary Guild...