Word: mt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hubble found that all distant nebulae are moving away from the earth at spectacular speeds, and that the more distant they are, the faster they move. Using more delicate techniques, his colleague Humason continued his work. With the 100-inch Mt. Wilson telescope, Humason photographed nebulae whose red-shifts indicate that they are receding at 25,000 m.p.s...
Bell found less comfort when he headed for the line where the worst trouble could begin - the Russo-Iranian frontier between the Caspian Sea and Mt. Ararat. Nervous officers showed him their defense preparations and tried to keep him hidden from watchful Russian binoculars across the line. In the whole area he found panic-ridden faces, men afraid to talk for fear of the police or of ever-present Communist agents...
...long and devoted service to the children of his neighborhood, the Council also decided to name the traffic circle at Mt. Auburn Street and Elmwood Avenue after the late Professor William J. Harris. Harris built a bathhouse for the children of his Mercer Circle neighborhood as well as performing many other services for them...
...most of Five, filmed on a shoestring by Producer-Scripter-Director Arch Oboler, takes place in Oboler's own modernistic eyrie in California's Santa Monica mountains, where the survivors happen to gather from as far away as Mt. Everest and the Empire State Building. Five's intriguing premise, which sorely lacks either dialogue by George Bernard Shaw or the imagination of H. G. Wells, leaves Radio-writer Arch Oboler with his limitations showing...
This year, 24 girls will take these non-paying jobs. A few students of Smith, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke are included in the roster...