Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, the theory may shed some light on the age-old question of why the sky is black at night, rather than gray or as bright as the sun itself...
Layzer's theory also helps resolve what is known as Olber's Paradox on the night- time sky...
According to Olber, Layzer said yesterday, the light produced by faraway stars should make the night sky intensely bright and hot. Obler reached this conclusion after observing a "shell" of stars at a given distance from the earth. While the brightness of the stars will diminish with the square of their distance, Layzer said. The area of the shell--and thus the number of stars on it--will go up it the same rate...
Boston College, with an 840 total, and Boston University, with 847, finished well ahead of the pack. The Crimson struggled home with a sky-high score of 870, an average of 87 strokes per round...
...such exercises in nostalgia or the manufacture of new traditions do not change the fact of rampant change, which evokes a turn-of-the-century observation from the Tascosa (Texas) Pioneer: "Truly this is a world which has no regard for the established order of things, but knocks them sky west and crooked, and lo, the upstart hath the land and its fatness...