Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asteroid is now fainter than the sixteenth magnitude, and probably very few, if any, additional observations will be obtained at this appearance...
...catalogue contains descriptions of 7,889 galaxies in the Horologium area, almost all of them hitherto unknown, and nearly all of them fainter than the fifteenth magnitude. It was compiled from a series of long exposure photographs taken with the Bruce telescope at the University's southern observatory in Bloomfontein, South Africa...
This earlier catalogue included almost exclusively objects brighter than the fifteenth magnitude, and covered the whole sky. The present catalogue deals, for the most part, with objects fainter than the fifteenth magnitude, and confines itself to a very small area...
...undertaken at a half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years ago in Nashville, Mo. His mother was one of the Massachusetts Stowells who reached the U. S. in 1640. His father, a teacher, died when Harlow and his brother John were boys. Though there...
...linguistic vagaries of contemporary poets. But Edna St. Vincent Millay is still a lucid poet. Though it is a modern belief that poets, to be audible at all, must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...