Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent advances in photographic technique have enabled Cunningham and his co-workers for the first time to take photographs of the infra-red end of the spectrum and to measure the absolute brightness of the comet...
...student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding by his scientific colleagues) in American Men of Science for distinguished research in stellar motions, statistics and luminosities, Gustaf Strömberg is nevertheless not the kind of scientist to pore myopically over tables and spectrum slides while taking the stars for granted. During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God. Now he has published the result of his pondering in a book, The Soul...
...Thomas Beer, 50, author of The Mauve Decade, Stephen Crane, Hanna; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Slow and obliquely precious in his writing, he produced few books, many potboilers for the Satevepost. Hipped on the influence of visual color on human life, he struggled ten years to prove his spectrum, left an unfinished volume on the subject...
Other equipment at the station will include a powerful spectrograph to observe the spectrum of the corona. Color filters as well as movies will be used to record how the corona changes from day to day and how its streamers project into space...
Last week the FM crowd, headed by Major Armstrong, moved on Washington to argue before the Federal Communications Commission for air room in the radio spectrum. Chief aims: 1) exclusive rights to the 3,000-kc., ultra-short-wave band they now share plus a 6,000-kc. bite of television's 12,000-kc. claim, just beyond; 2) power increases; 3) commercial status. Hearings will go on for two weeks...