Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm, Sweden, from August 3 to 10, papers were delivered by three men from Harvard. Dr. Shapley spoke on "The Distribution of Galaxies and the Absorption of Light in space." He confirmed previous indications that our own discshaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by an immense, low-density globe of scattered stars...
...Harvard Observations show that this Milky Way "globe" has a diameter of about 80,000 light years (a light year is the distance light travels in a year at the rate of 186,000 miles a second). The diameter of the flat disc of the Milky Way in which nearly all the stars of the system are located, is of the order of 100,000 light years...
More than 100,000 galaxies were studied in the Harvard survey, covering an are about 200,000,000 light years long at a distance of 13,000,000 light years from the earth. Dr. Shapley pointed out that the density here is twice as great as in some regions...
...final promotion went to Bill Coleman, a center last year who has been shifted to guard, who appears to have a good chance to push Dave Clueck, the only guard with experience, out of the top position flanking Russell's right. At left guard Nick Mellon, a light but capable Senior, won his "red-shirt" at the opening of the practice sessions...
...novels. No Star Is Lost begins in 1914, when the O'Neills are penniless again, when the family has grown to include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother in the comparative luxury of an apartment. The new light it throws on the environment is in its picture of the poverty of the O'Neills, with their excitement on payday, when they know they will get meat for supper, and their painful struggle to keep up some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills...