Word: lyra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra, a writer of children's books, who sat in her book-lined front parlor and dished out the rocking-chair Communist advice that Mora has followed for years...
...remarkable eclipsing binary is the star Beta Lyrae, in the constellation of Lyra (The Harp). Astronomers have long known that its two components must be exceedingly close together, for one has hardly stopped eclipsing the other before the other starts eclipsing the first. Dr. Gerard Peter Kuiper of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory last week surmised that the two stars comprising Beta Lyrae are in actual contact, like snowballs crushed together...