Word: inchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such great telescopes as the 200-incher on Mt. Palomar see only tiny patches of sky. They need a more wide-eyed instrument to tell them where to look. Last week CalTech and the National Geographic Society announced a joint project to map the whole sky in search of interesting objects for big telescopes to study in detail. The society will supply the funds; CalTech, which runs Palomar Observatory, will supply the Schmidt telescope to do the mapping...
Columbia Records Inc., which scored a profitable beat on the rest of the industry with its long-playing records (TIME, June 8), extended its lead this week. It brought out a seven-inch, unbreakable "Microgroove" record that will play as long as a conventional twelve-incher. The new record can be played on the same attachment (33⅓ revolutions a minute) as Columbia's long-playing Microgroove record. Another advantage is that it will sell for considerably less than old-style records: 63? (v. 79?) for popular recordings, and 95? (v. $1.25) for classics...
...played on the same turntable. RCA has given up the idea of one symphony on one record, reduced the size of the record to seven inches, and come up with the startling result that its new record holds exactly the same amount of music as an old 12 incher. This leaves the entire advantage of the record in its improved tone and the rapid changer. Columbia's no-changer record has the definite advantage here. In fact, the difference to the consumer between RCA's new record and old is so slight that it is hard...
...this should be happening (or if it really is happening) Dr. Hubble does not know. The 100-in. telescope could not see far enough to give him the data he needed. The new 200-incher may show Hubble and his fellow men (who live on an earth that is only a speck of dust in one of the nebulae) whether the universe is "exploding"-or doing something quite different...
...TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...