Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work has been begun at the University Observatory on the extension of the Henry Draper Catalogue, and immense compilation of the spectra of 225,000 stars in every part of the sky, made over a period of many years as a part of the Observatory's fundamental task of surveying and mapping the heavens...
Since the work of compiling the catalogue was undertaken, improved methods of stellar photography have made it possible to secure the spectra of fainter stars, and the new plan at the Observatory is to go for a second time over certain portions of the sky, adding the spectra of other stars than those already included...
...idea, practical or not, is additional testimony to the fact that "radio" is writing its name across the sky in more and more alarming capitals. Already the scheme of a "traffic cop for the air" is out of the musical comedy stage, as anyone will agree who has heard the exquisite discords emanating from the "magnavox",--the lady in Wellesley Hills trying to sing, the trio in Newark on the piano and two other instruments (to all intents and purposes a pair of steam calliopes), and the gentleman in Wilmington who wishes to talk about the natural development of cucumbers...
What looks to be a patch of blue sky is visible through the clouded outlook of the American stage in the plans already under way to form a National Theatre. Fifty-six representative theatre directors and producers have organized in New York to put the scheme into effect and their first effort is about to be launched. Their main purpose is to build up a last ditch defence in the losing battle of the legitimate stage, outside of the four or five largest cities, against the advance of the "movies...
...star was measured at the University Observatory by a complicated process of observations and computations, including among other things the comparison of photographs recently taken here with others taken 31 years ago, when the Observatory was just beginning its task of preserving a photographic history of the entire sky. Since that time a "sky patrol" has been kept without interruption at Cambridge, supplemented by photographs taken at the station at Arequipa, Peru, and the history of the stars down to the eleventh magnitude has been written by the stars themselves on over a quarter of a million photographic plates weighing...