Word: marse
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Astronomers are cosily familiar with stars quadrillions of miles from the earth, and with galaxies much more distant. But Pluto, a member of the sun's own planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles away, has little personality for them. The outermost member of the solar system, it...
Mars Problem. Most romantic use of "light amplification" is in astronomy. The biggest telescopes do not magnify more than much smaller ones do; their purpose is to gather more light, making dim stars and nebulae bright enough to affect a photographic plate. Much the same result can be accomplished by...
The Lumicon will get its most spectacular astronomical test when Mars comes near the earth late next summer. Astronomers have always been baffled and infuriated by Mars; even in their biggest telescopes it looks like a small, fuzzy, orange disk that jiggles around as irregularities in the earth's...
As for about the Helen, Rossana Podestá is a charming girl, but the customers like King Priam (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), may well ask: "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?" And is this Hector (Harry Andrews), dreadful in his wrath and fierce Achilles (Stanley Baker), both with...
A member of the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club in Denver, James A. Mars '29, said however, that applications from his area would definitely drop. Mars stated that three-fourths of the 20 to 25 students from that area needed scholarships and didn't believe his club's limited funds could...