Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx-eyes over every other page--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, 'son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc.? They mean it. The illustrations needn...
...town. One recent night, as he scanned the dark sky, he watched the constellations rise with familiar timing above the eastern horizon; then he gradually turned his telescope on the constellation Hydra. There, three degrees southwest of star Pi, he caught a glimpse of a faint misty object. He did not remember seeing it before. He focused his telescope with extra care and looked again. The misty object was still there. With growing excitement he checked his sky maps. They showed nothing at the location of the misty object...
Next night he was back at his telescope, scanning the same area. The misty object was still there. In the morning, he sent an urgent telegram to Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, reporting his find. Next day, the observatory spotted the object, declared it a new comet, named it after its discoverer and informed European astronomical authorities. Word went out to the Harvard College Observatory, Western Hemisphere clearinghouse for astronomical information, which also found the new comet and published its position. Soon telescopes in both hemispheres were combing Hydra for Comet Ikeya...
...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...
...Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906. For the first cartoon, Feininger drew a caricature of himself holding his cast of characters by strings like marionettes. He called himself "Uncle Feininger," and his cast included the Kin-der-Kids and the appealing Wee Willie Winkie, who thought that every object in the world-trees, trains, puddles and clouds-had faces and feelings just like people...