Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schmidt telescope, two astronomers at Palomar Observatory spotted a thin streak made by a rapidly moving object. When the streak, in slightly different positions, showed up on later photographs, the astronomers were sure they had seen something new. Last week Drs. Seth B. Nicholson and Robert S. Richardson announced that the streak was an asteroid (midget planet) only nine-tenths of a mile in diameter and about 8,000,000 miles away from the earth...
...joined the Army in 1917, served through World War I in a San Francisco Army office. In 1922 he got a job as a state deputy corporation commissioner; it seemed that he might jog on through life as an inconspicuous public servant. But California's Governor Friend Richardson, impressed by his thoroughness, appointed him to the Superior Court bench. In twelve years as a judge his homely virtues and his obvious distress at civic corruption attracted the interest of Los Angeles reformers...
...technique which requires no laboratory animals, takes only half an hour at most, and, in a series of tests, proved 100% accurate, was announced by Northwestern's Dr. Garwood C. Richardson as a test...
...Thorn's research team included Theodore B. Bayles, instructor in Medicine, Joseph E. Warren, Peter H. Forsham, S. Richardson Hill, Jr. Teaching Fellow in Medicine, and Stephen Smith...
...still droned on, piling up supplies for any other rainy days that might lie ahead. Berlin's feeling about the end of the 327-day Russian blockade was shown most clearly as the first train chugged out of the city, bound for the Western zones. TIME Correspondent David Richardson, who was aboard, cabled...