Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piccadilly to Hyde Park marched 10,000 irate Britons bearing mock coffins and neatly lettered banners. "We backed you at the poll," read the slogans. "Don't put us on the dole." Gloomed another: "Prepare to meet thy doom." The demonstrators were British aircraft workers, and the object of their protest last week was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's troubled Labor government...
...dusk in icy, chest-high water, and was buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...
According to the rules of the expanding universe, speed of recession is proportionate to distance. This reckoning places Dr. Schmidt's quasars at least four billion light-years away from the earth; it makes them the most distant objects yet identified. Obviously they cannot be anything like stars. To be visible at such an enormous distance, a luminous object must give as much light as 50 entire galaxies, each containing an average of 100 billion stars...
Since nothing can travel faster than light, any object that changes in brilliance cannot be larger than the distance light would travel during the period of fluctuation. Even the crowded nuclei of normal galaxies are many thousand light-years in diameter, so no known influence could cross them quickly enough to make them flicker on a monthly tempo. An object that flickers so fast would have to be less than one light-year in diameter, unless it follows physical laws that are wholly unsuspected by human scientists...
Blue Birth. The confusion has increased steadily. Dr. Allen R. Sandage of Mt. Wilson and Palomar reported that a radio source, 3C-2, which was photographed as a dim reddish object only two years ago by the University of Minnesota observatory, has shown up in recent Palomar pictures four times as brilliant as before, but rich in blue light. It seems as if 3C-2 has turned into a quasar, giving a vast increase in shortwave radiation. But no one can imagine a process that could kindle such an outburst in so short a time...