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Many mountings of homemade telescopes are pieced together from the gleanings of junk yards. Clyde Tombaugh, the amateur who discovered the planet Pluto, made a telescope mount from an old cream separator. Nevertheless, most homemade telescopes look pretty good; however much junk they contain, they must be precision instruments. Several, in fact, are now in use at professional observatories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Amateur Stargazers | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...well beyond reach of the naked eye). Its existence and gravitational pull are postulated by Mount Wilson Observatory's R.S. Richardson to explain why Halley's comet embarrassed astronomers by showing up three days late in 1910. Search for the new planet may take 25 years (like Pluto), or only 18 months (like Neptune)-both of which were postulated by astronomers before telescopes sighted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Planet? | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Passed by the office of Hayes (Col. Wentworth, House steward) last night were the following items: "Imprudent Corned Beef Hash (1 flashed it myself, says the Colonel)," "Pluto Water (if helps to pass the meal away, says the Colonel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gold Coast Seniors Produce A Menu to End All Menus | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Because he double-crossed Pluto, Sisyphus in Hades was made to roll a big stone up a steep hill forever. Just before he reaches the top, the stone always rolled down again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: $2,000,000,000 Worth of Tools | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Downfall | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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