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Word: haling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet away across the table. The packed room hushed; Roy Cohn grimaced toward McCarthy, shook his head, and his lips seemed to form the words "No! No!" Without any warning or relevancy, McCarthy interjected the name of Fred Fisher, 32, an associate in Welch's Boston law firm, Hale & Dorr. Fisher, said McCarthy, "has been for a number of years" a member of the National Lawyers Guild, "the legal bulwark of the Communist Party." Welch, he went on, had tried to get Fisher hired as "the assistant counsel for this committee" so Fisher would have a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gauge of Recklessness | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

After a brief tour as an Army private in World War I, Welch settled down with the eminent Boston legal firm of' Hale & Dorr, has been there ever since. Immediately, he began to build a reputation among lawyers as one of the shrewdest, soundest attorneys in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE OTHER JOE | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...best window on the universe is the 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain. It is a good window, but not good enough to satisfy the astronomers. It sees only a billion light-years into space, and the universe is a great deal bigger than that. The astronomers would like to see more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Better Eye | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

There is not much point in building a big brother for the Hale telescope. Even if its mirror were made twice as wide (a monstrously difficult and costly undertaking), it would see only twice as far into space. It might not see even as far as that; one of the Hale's great difficulties is the faint "shine" of the night sky, which fogs its photographic plates before they can catch the images of extremely distant objects. A bigger Hale-type telescope would suffer even more from sky shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Better Eye | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...more optimistic astronomers believe that some system of this sort would multiply the effectiveness of any telescope about 50 times. The Hale telescope, electronized, might see the edge of the universe, if the universe has an edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Better Eye | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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