Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...
Meanwhile, he will look for evidence that the "red shift" does not indicate speed but is due to some other effect, such as light getting "tired." Hubble does not expect such evidence, but will welcome it if he finds it. Tired light, he thinks, would be a discovery quite as sensational as the exploding universe...
Curved space is apparently understandable to Professor Howard P. Robertson, leading cosmologist who has come to Pasadena to look over Hubble's shoulder. Suppose, says Robertson, you draw two circles on a sheet of paper, one with a radius of one inch, the other with a radius of two inches. By high-school plane geometry, the second circle will have four times the area of the first...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...
Displeased. Nevertheless, many a consumer was beginning to look askance at the profits which P. & G. and many another company were reporting. They seemed to mean that prices had been raised too high in the first place. After looking over P. & G.'s report, the New York World-Telegram's conservative financial editor, Ralph Hendershot, summed...