Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CATCHING: Shepard has moved O'Donnell behind the plate, where he was playing last year before he shifted to first base. Allan Liebgott, a substitute for the past two years, is the other top candidate. Junior Jeff Hall and sophomore Don Chiofaro are on the fringes...
...optical astronomers turned to one of their most powerful tools: the spectrograph, which separates light into its component wave lengths by passing it through a prism or a series of fine lines etched on a glass plate. The spectrum of colors that results can be photographed and interpreted by scientists to reveal the secrets of the light's source...
...obtained a good spectrum from the quasar and, like his colleagues Sandage and Greenstein, he was puzzled by the sight of unfamilar spectral lines. But after staring at the spectrum for six weeks, Schmidt had a wild, almost desperate thought. Three closely spaced spectral lines on his photographic plate resembled hydrogen lines. But they were not in the blue segment of the spectrum where they belonged: they were superimposed on the red portion instead. Could they actually be hydrogen lines that had shifted to longer wave lengths...
...lines, called H-alpha, seemed to be missing entirely from 3C 273's spectrum. If Schmidt's theory was right, the line was not missing but had shifted into the infar-red region of the spectrum, where it would not register on an ordinary photographic plate. Schmidt remembered Astronomer Beverley Oke had already studied the spectrum with an electronic gadget sensitive to invisible infrared. Oke had found a prominent line precisely where Schmidt thought that H-alpha should be, shifted into the infrared. 3C 273 was moving faster than seemed possible; it was farther away than anyone...
Religious institutions should derive their support from private, free-will giving, Adams argued. He said that the collection plate in Protestant Sunday services is "an unmistakable symbol of the thentic religion...