Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cepheid variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams enable measurement of great interstellar distances, may prove also to hold important new clues to forces at work within the great island universes, or galaxies like our own Milky Way, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, recently told the National Academy of Sciences...
...display explains the uses of X-ray and surface photography, and of ultraviolet and infra-red light, in the determination of the authorship of paintings, the study of painting styles, the detection of forgery, and the restoration of damaged pictures. The University now has X-ray films available for study of more than 3,200 paintings in the United States and Europe...
Comstock, with a light, fast crew is figured to win by inner rowing circles, but Anderson and Gray should give him a good fight. All the boats are remarkably even in rowing material...
...Bolles coaching tactics in crew this fall have brought to light some old controversies in their full force. Questions of whether it is the heavy crew or the light crew, the tall crew or the short crew, and better form or more power that makes the best eight have all had an opportunity to resolve themselves in Bolles' experimenting, but the question still remains undecided...
...real possibilities of this material were brought to light in a measure not so long ago when Hank Drinker, erstwhile cub stroke, came through in the heavy sculling singles to win an all college event. Drinker's sculling experience was limited but natural ability seemed to carry him through. However, Drinker is not the only hopeful that remains out of the limelight at Nassau...