Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family has ruled for three generations. Because she is writing a book about Sarawak, has published her memoirs, the ranee could qualify as an author among such full-time professionals as Stuart Chase and Frederick Lewis Allen, such part-time writers as Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Astronomer Harlow Shapley, all of whom attended the Fair. Since no fine horizontal line was drawn to distinguish low from high brow, nor a vertical one to set the boundary between Right and Left, listeners at New York's Book Fair could hear New Masses Editor Joseph Freeman as well as Colonel...
...celebrated scientists lave written popular books about their own specialties. Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) and Astronomer Harlow Shapley (Flights from Chaos) are exceptions. But in general relatively obscure men, journalists with solid scientific backgrounds or university scientists with a flair for journalism have taken the job of making science "understanded of the people." Among such U. S. interpreters of science three men are particularly outstanding...
First of the four or five weddings that occur during the college year in Memorial Chapel was held Saturday when Miss Mildred Shapley, daughter of Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, was married to Ralph V. Matthews, a graduate of the University of Michigan...
Professor Shapley is director of the College observatory and an internationally known astronomer. Mr. Matthews is now engaged in graduate study in music at Cambridge. President and Mrs. Conant were among the guests...
...members, most of them bigger than the sun. Latest estimates of the Milky Way's diameter are about 100,000 light-years (one light-year is about six trillion miles). But there are bigger astronomical aggregations than galaxies. There are groups of galaxies which Harvard's Harlow Shapley, systematizer of the universe, calls super-galaxies or "super-systems" (TIME. July 29). Clusters bigger than super-galaxies he calls metagalactic clouds (metagalaxy is his name for the whole universe...