Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beam. In Omaha, John Staskiewicz, suing Ak-Sar-Ben race-track officials, charged that the beam of light from the electric camera at the finish line caused the horse he was backing to bolt, lose the lead and finish third...
...there? . . . We know full well that Scripture needs a qualified interpreter, but we cannot agree with our Catholic neighbors on who this interpreter shall be . . ." The Protestant version: "This infallible interpreter is none else than the Holy Spirit." But Roman Catholics "want human guides and little candles to light the way ahead, as if Christians were not able to listen to God without a translator, or to execute His orders without a foreman to supervise...
Associate Professor Norman F. Ramsey, chairman of the Harvard Physics Department Cyclotron Committee, speaking first, told briefly how the cyclotron worked. He stated that the new cyclotron is able to accelerate protons to speeds about half that of light, which travels at 186,00 miles per second. The cyclotron weighs 750 tons...
...Payne-Gaposchkin received her A.B. at Cambridge and her Ph.D. at the Annex; she is an expert in the fields of astro-physics and photometry, the study of the measurement of light. She is a lecturer in astronomy at Harvard...
Alexander Knox gives a skillful and appealing performance. But most moviegoers, slouched down in the dark of their favorite dream emporium, are not likely to go for the lesson he tries to teach. Coming out of Hollywood, prime spinner of myths, it will seem a piece of light-hearted hypocrisy...