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Word: marse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pluto's Day | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let There Be More Light | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let There Be More Light | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Will Boost Help When Tuition Climbs | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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