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Interest was aroused, however, and individual as well as society financial support finally warranted purchase of a refractor with a 15-inch aperture. The lens arrived at Cambridge in December, 1846, was erected in a 30-feet dome, and thus the College Observatory was born. Obsolete as this ancient refractor...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: College Observatory Slates Four-Day Centennial Celebration AS U.S. Scientists Gather to Honor Astronomic Leadership | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

With Clementine, Director Ford has accomplished more than an intelligent retelling of a hoary yarn. His camera sometimes pauses, with a fresh, childlike curiosity, to examine the shape and texture of a face, a pair of square-dancing feet, a scrap of desert landscape or a sunlit dusty road. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazers | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

This is the correct version as quoted to me by its author, [the late] Professor A. H. Reginald Buller, F.R.S., etc., etc., onetime professor of botany at the University of Manitoba. . . . This world authority on fungi found enough time . . . to write many such light verses, some of which were inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

The electrons are concentrated on a second screen, at the rear end of the tube, forming an "electron image." This-screen is covered with a substance which glows green when hit by electrons. So a visible copy of the invisible infra-red image appears on it. When the sniper looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Peeping Tom | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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