Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sir James Jeans was a leading interpreter of this Golden Age. Jeans started as a lecturer at Cambridge, England, then was summoned to Princeton in 1905 by the University's president, Woodrow Wilson. There Jeans taught applied mathematics, married Charlotte Tiffany Mitchell of the jeweled Tiffanys. In 1910 he...
Lewd Delight. In Paris, peacemakers were astonished by the Wallace outburst. Said one: "Imagine the glee at the Soviet Embassy"-reminding an observer of Poet Ralph Hodgson's poem Eve:
Said one Managua observer: "[The election] is already stolen." Asked his choice of the two candidates, a Nicaraguan exile said: "It is like being asked which you would rather use to eat soup, a knife or a fork."
One observer who was not amused was OPA. Reports that 75% of the $20 million-a-month sales on Automobile Row were under the table and over the ceiling made OPA decide to take action. Last week OPA agents swooped down on Automobile Row, after they had laid the ground...
Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But...