Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Astronomer Maarten Schmidt focused Palomar's big scope on the strange source of electromagnetic noise. By using very long exposures, he photographed 3C-147's spectrum-the rainbow of lines and hues that give away the chemical secrets of their source. The pictures brought out oxygen and neon lines that were shifted farther toward the red end of the spectrum than any such lines ever photographed before. Since red shift is caused by motion, 3C-147, Schmidt decided, must be speeding away from the earth at 76,000 miles per second, almost half the speed of light...
...personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...
...prospect of writing the book on Kennedy scare him? "Scared isn't the word I would have chosen--perhaps overawed." The problem of the book's scope bothered Sorensen, "and there is the difficulty of classified material: I wouldn't do anything to endanger present security, but I have a responsibility to history, too. It will be a personal, not a comprehensive book...
...times the immediate impact of a news event leads to exaggeration and distortion of the real story. This tended to be the case with the primary election in New Hampshire, which, with all the polling and computing and promoting, was inflated beyond its scope. In a cool assessment of the results, THE NATION takes measure of New Hampshire's significance in the race for the Republican nomination for President...
...least one practical difficulty remains with the formula outlined above: "While it rewards a student for work outside his field, it may also destroy the record of, say, an adventurous English concentrator who decided to take a physics course. In this case the formula would narrow the educational scope it set out to widen...