Word: heavensent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago...
A lecture by Lawrence B. Adler, of Indiana University, on "What Makes Stars Shine?" will begin the program at 8 o'clock. If weather permits, guests will then be able to look at the heavens through telescopes.
The mysterious ''flying saucers" that had bedeviled the heavens for a fortnight (TIME, July 14) seemed to have whisked back to Wonderland. A few U.S. citizens still saw them, last week; so did people in England, Italy, Chile, Iran, Holland, Japan and China (see A LETTER FROM THE...
The two astronomers did not know each other, and had taken years to work out their respective theories. But both had arrived at their conclusions by the same method-while lying on their backs, gazing at the heavens.
Amateur stargazers, anxious for a glimpse of the heavens above, will get their first chance to observe celestial doings at the Harvard Observatory on Monday, July 28, it was announced yesterday.