Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is particularly unfortunate when considered in the light of the fact Stewart has not made many pictures recently. His remarkable abilities are too rare to be treated carelessly when he does make a picture. They are evident in "Magic Town," but Riskin has made the least of them...
...light-year is the distance that light, traveling at 186,000 m.p.s., covers in one year-5,865,696,000,000 miles. *Dr. Vesto Slipher of Lowell Observatory measured, before Hubble, the slower speeds of nearer nebulae. *Hubble would be the first to deny that all the credit for the expanding universe theory is his. Many others, from Harvard's Harlow Shapley to Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, have contributed. *One cause for coolness: a studio, planning a movie about the stars, hired a Mount Wilson astronomer as consultant. He was happy with his easy $200 a month...
...telephone instructions to an assistant down at the control desk; the massive telescope will swing almost silently. When Hubble is satisfied that it is pointed right, he will put a plate in the holder, watch through a microscope, and make careful minor adjustments while the scattered photons of nebula light (some of which have been traveling for a billion years) make their marks on the photosensitive emulsion...
...actual buildings were shots of Taliesin West, Wright's winter headquarters in the Arizona desert, which after ten years is "still under construction" by his students. Wright admits that the white canvas ceiling is likely to leak, but it is "translucent and attractive beyond expression." He considers light and space as important to houses as the roof itself...
...that Hell Week night. Next morning at one University of Washington fraternity house, a dozen "pledges"-all overseas veterans-packed their bags and walked out. Said a spokesman: "No 18-year-old kids are going to warm our bottoms." At Northwestern University, a sophomore "active" ordered a pledge to light his cigarette for him. The pledge, an ex-major in the Air Forces, gave the sophomore and his brothers heated and specific instructions about how they could dispose of his pledge...