Word: haves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honky-Tonk Lunches. The Economist on last week's newsstands had 136 pages, was the fattest issue in the history of the publication (Economist staffers steadfastly decline to call it a magazine, always refer to it as "the paper"). The newsstand sales put U.S. circulation up to 7,500...
The Economist's influence stems from a journalistic ideal, first defined in 1843 by its creator, a liberal London banker named James Wilson, and restated a century later by Sir Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956. The Economist's creed: "To hold opinions, to hold them strongly...
Rougoor and Oort are not sure how to interpret their observations. They suspect that the hydrogen disk at the center of the galaxy is rich in stars, but they cannot see them. The stars and hydrogen, they say, are presumably held together by gravitation and revolve more or less as...
Though relatively few earthlings are aware of it, they are embedded in a huge, disk-shaped spiral galaxy. Earth's astronomers have a hard time seeing much else; every star visible in the sky is part of it.* They have an even harder time seeing into its heart (located...
But radio waves pass through cosmic dust clouds. By tracking the 21-cm. waves given off by hydrogen, radio astronomers have been able to probe deeper and deeper through the Milky Way toward the galaxy's center. Recently, Dutch Astronomers G. W. Rougoor and J. H. Oort of Leiden...