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Word: planetarium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium, a dome 75 feet in diameter atop a five-story building designed as an astronomical centre for scholars, amateurs, sightseers of the whole country. Searchlights, meticulously aimed and synchronized, will cast into a night-blue field with a perfect illusion of limitless space, bright images of the moon, the sun, the planets, stars and Milky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lack | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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