Word: haled
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MAJOR GENERAL DAVID HALE Sentenced to pay $22,000 for adultery and lying, plus 100 push-ups for crying in public...
Hubble's last great contribution to astronomy was a central role in the design and construction of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain. Four times as powerful as the Hooker, the Hale would be the largest telescope on Earth for four decades. It would have been even longer, but its completion was interrupted by World War II. So was Hubble's career. The ex-major signed on as head of ballistics at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (At one point the eminent astronomer spent an afternoon test-firing bazookas, at great personal risk, to pinpoint a design flaw...
Hubble finally got his hands on the Hale when it went into service in 1949. It was too late; he had suffered a major heart attack, and he never fully regained the stamina it took to spend all night in a freezing-cold observatory. No imaginable discovery, however, could have added to his reputation...
...astronomer George Hale builds a 100-in. reflecting telescope--the world's largest--on California's Mount Wilson...
...what Facher calls "an interesting coincidence," he learned "about three weeks ago" that Harvard had asked Joan Lukey of Hale & Dorr to represent the University in the event of a court fight...