Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already possessed by these men, but it is the function of their government to provide them with ships, their instruments of war. In the Senate, last week, this function began to be discussed, relative to the Cruiser Bill, relict of the last Congress. Did the U. S. need more light cruisers? In view of the passage of the Kellogg Peace Treaty, should the U. S. feel that appropriating money for more naval armament would be a belligerent act? The issues were complex and contested. The question seemed likely to absorb the Senate for a good part of the present session...
...snow fell in the morning, drifting over the roads. The wind lifted scarves of snow, twisting them quickly about invisible dancers in the white woods. Steep, shining lawns slanted under the trees, marked by the light feet of birds, brushed by the tails of foxes, punctuated strangely by the furry paws of rabbits. The cold whisper of winter, the soft voice of disaster through beauty, sounded in the forest...
...determination by Miss Swope of the brightness and the period of variation of eighty-five of the variables discovered by her has enabled Dr. Shapley to locate more accurately the center or nucleus of our Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...
...means of a prism placed over the object glass of the telescope, photographs of stellar spectra have been taken at Harvard for the last forty years. The light of any star of sufficient brightness in the field of view is spread out into a band, showing characteristics by which the spectra can be classified into various groups...
...growth around it has taken shape, when new uses will undoubtedly arise for it. That part of it back from the river, behind Baker Library, might, however, be put to immediate as a site for the power plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available for the structure are undesirable for this purpose because of their proximity...