Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state that we find it hard to explain why the earth should happen to be at the exact center of the expanding universe. Nowhere in our work is it either implied or stated that the earth is at the center of the universal expansion...
...viewed by anyone driving along a highway . . . when objects . . . seem to be moving in different directions at varying speeds. I am more confirmed in my theory than ever after reading "What [the two cosmologists of the Gamow school, Drs. Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman] find harder to explain is why the earth should happen to be at the exact center of the great expansion...
TIME erred in implying that Cosmologists Alpher and Herman did say so. All the distant galaxies appear to be receding from the earth. This is hard to explain on the basis of one central explosion, unless the earth should happen to be at the point from which the galaxies are receding. No cosmologist, of course, believes that this is the case. A better explanation is that space itself is expanding, making each galaxy move away from the others...
Dawson, 42, President Truman's patronage assistant, last week finally showed up before the Fulbright subcommittee to explain his connections with influence peddlers and RFC loans. The subcommittee, which had waited for eleven weeks while Dawson considered its invitation to testify, had its questions all ready. Dawson had his answers ready, too, and most of them began...
Castration fears and mother complexes explain nothing about "Moby Dick," Thornton Wilder told an audience of 500 in his last Charles Eliot Norton lecture last night in Sanders Theatre...