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...front cover) Astronomy deals with Earth, and with everything discernible beyond Earth. Its task is detecting, locating, describing and classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress...
...Presiding over the congress was a U. S. astronomer, square, heavy-jowled Director Frank Schlesinger of Yale Observatory, whose fame is associated with parallax. Earth's annual orbit around the Sun is 186,000,000 miles across; therefore the direction of stars as observed from Earth on opposite sides of that orbit changes slightly. This change is called parallax. Even the nearer stars are so far off that their parallax is extremely small, and for remote stars it is not discernible at all. Nevertheless since the amount of apparent displacement depends on how far away the star is, parallax...
...Perkins (Delaware, Ohio).......................... 69 in. Harvard .....................................................61 in. Argentine National (Cordoba).........................60 in. Harvard (South Africa) ....................................60 in. Berlin-Babelsburg ........................................48½in. Melbourne..................................................... 48 in. †One light-year=approximately six trillion miles. Traveling 186,000 miles per second, light takes only eight minutes to reach Earth from...
...office at the firm's Cleveland headquarters and takes a hand in its management. Last May he called on President Tew. Was Otis & Co. going to get a slice of the new financing? No, replied Mr. Tew, it was not. Then, said Eaton, he would move heaven & earth to prevent the plan from going through...
Three years before, Publisher Hearst had made Ray Long boss of Hearst's International Magazine Co. Two years later, Ray Long announced his retirement from the Hearst organization. Friends, who had often heard tense, febrile Editor Long say that the only thing on earth he feared was "going stale," guessed that 13 years in one job had begun to wear on him. He at once plunged into the book publishing firm of Ray Long & Richard Smith. They had some successes, more failures. Suddenly one day in 1932 Ray Long walked out of his Manhattan office "a couple of jumps...