Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astronomers suspected a year ago that the newly discovered massive objects,--one in the constellation Sculptor and the other in Fornax,--belonged to a new grouping. But proof had to awalt the discovery within the systems of variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams would enable a measurement of distance...
...object in Sculptor was found to be 290,000 light years distant, and to have a diameter of 6,500 light years. The Fornax cluster is further away and a little larger, but belongs in the same class...
Captain Jack Barr and his Senior mate Henry Thompson form the second best due that Hodder can send up to the firing line. Barr is rather light but makes up for it with a steady all-round game. It any one part of his game stands out from the rest, it is his putting. Thompson in heavier and longer off the tee, but again his main forte is consistency...
...program of light music by the pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, and a group of songs by the Gold Coasters Glee Club, assisted by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society, were the attractions of an Adams House concert last night...
...problem of program-planning has received much publicity of late, with musicians and critics agitating strenuously for an expansion of repertoires to bring to light some of the vast literature of undeservedly neglected music. This is a question of greatest importance to the musical public, for music is unique among the arts in its inaccessibility. Only a few highly trained musicians can read scores with as much pleasure as they get from a performance, and though recorded music has provided us with a few musical musecums, actual performances are still the chief means of bringing music to life...