Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his homemade apparatus, Reber made a radio map of the sky. Strong broadcasts, he found, come from the Milky Way (the crowded inner section of the galaxy or star-cloud in which the sun is one star). Most galaxies have a dense central nucleus, but the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy (if one exists) is hidden by clouds of dust which block its light. . Reber turned his radio telescope on the place where the nucleus ought to be, and got a "bulge" of powerful radio energy. The nucleus does exist, he concluded, and is sending radio waves right...
...appeared so often naive, extravagant, maudlin, ludicrous." But the strength of Wolfe's novels lies in their deep and loving evocation of significant segments of U.S. life; Thomas Wolfe's "image is the great national myth, the American Dream." No one else has so vividly rendered the inner tensions of ordinary, unintellectual small-town Americans-and done so in the traditional rolling phrases of the American declamatory style which Wolfe inherited from Whitman and Melville...
...creating a contemporary Italian Bethlehem. The result was sometimes as stilted-looking as an amateur theatrical, but its wholly unsentimental sweetness more than compensated for that. The sweetness in Luini's pictures could not be mixed on a palette or applied with a brush; it was an inner achievement of the artist himself, a personal innocence and joy, which gave greatness to paintings like the Nativity...
...Stork Club, ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley moves with exquisite aplomb. He is the Ward McAllister of café society. He dispenses a magnum of champagne to a favorite here, a fleeting, boyish smile to an attractive décolletage there. And he gives mad, mad gifts to the charmed inner circle of his customers...
Bekesy has, over a period of 20 years, developed a technique for observing what happens inside the inner and middle ear. Using microscopes and fine hair probes, he is able to measure the elasticity of the inner membrane and to observe its motions and mechanical properties...