Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, deplored America's foreign aid program at the Boston Community Church last night. He pointed out that the United Nations spends a "grotesquely small" sum on foreign aid, while using $50 billion a year for "police activity...
...United Nations are fighting to stop an impending World War," Shapley said. "However, we in this country aren't offering any hope to the under-privileged people in other parts of the world ... and for some of them, our enemy's philosophy has the brighter future...
...census of the cosmos was taken at the College Observatory, of which Shapley is director...
...clues indicating that the larger aggregates of stars are organized into any kind of superstructure have been found to date, added Shapley, although the search for such clues continues...
...Shapley estimates that there are a billion visible galaxies within a distance of a billion light years, with another billion concealed...