Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first "blues" album (actually more pop than blues), Farrell displays many of the qualities that shine forth on the concert stage: the easy flexibility, the tonal purity, the subtle sense of pitch that enables her to put her voice within the heart of every tone. The selections scarcely call for her full power, but they summon humor, a swinging beat and dramatic conviction. As Farrell alternately becomes the raucously betrayed woman (Blues In the Night), the languorous lady of experience (Old Devil Moon), the world-weary floozy (Ten Cents a Dance), even the weariest lines emerge fresh and endlessly inventive...
Mount Wilson was the world's best window on the universe, and Baade quickly won recognition as a superb observer. His first search was for supernovae, those incredible stars that burst like giant nuclear bombs and shine for a few weeks with the glare of 100 million suns. They happen in an average galaxy only once in about 300 years. But by patrolling distant galaxies with the 100-incher, Baade photographed many of them-and developed an explanation of their explosive physics...
...central disk. Baade concluded that the stars of Population I were recently formed out of cosmic dust and gas, and that they are rapidly burning themselves out. The stars of Population II are much older, dating back to the formation of the galaxy. Most of them will shine almost unchanged for billions of years...
...family relationship, they themselves feel a rung higher, and this is a great reason for gossip. I think socially we're flying apart-we don't meet heart to heart any more, we meet at cocktail parties in a superficial way. We value smartness rather than depth, shine rather than spirit. But I think people are sick of it; they want...
...more ardent champion than a tough-looking, hard-working civil servant named Henry Welch. Starting with a 1943 crash project to develop standards for penicillin and methods of testing its purity and potency, he advanced to become undisputed czar of the industry. So bright did Welch's star shine that his bosses in the Food and Drug Administration boosted him from chief of the Antibiotics Division, at $14,450 a year, to the supergrade rank of director...