Word: spyglasses
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...took another 1,400 years, and the invention of the telescope, before Saturn was really established as a planet. In July of 1610, Italian Astronomer Galileo Galilei contemplated Saturn through a new, 8-power spyglass. He was stunned. The familiar planet seemed to have sprouted ears or handles. Galileo assumed that Saturn's ears were moons like those of Jupiter, which he had discovered only a few months earlier. But when he looked again, some time later, he got another surprise: the moons had vanished. Whimsically, he asked: "Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his own children...
Since its inception, the Crosby Pro-Am has always been played at Pebble Beach, perhaps the greatest course in the world, but the first two rounds are now played on two other courses on the Monterey Peninsula, Cypress Point and Spyglass...
...GUERRE EST FINIE. A peek through the other end of the spyglass as French Director Alain Resnais examines the mind and mores of a Communist agitator left over from the Spanish Civil War but still traveling the dreadmill...
...Guerre Est Finie. At the Spanish border a car is checked by the guards, then sent on its way. Unknown to the police, it carries a pair of Red agents bent on toppling the Franco regime. Still another peek into the spyglass...
...Guerre Est Finie. At the Spanish border a car is checked by the guards, then sent on its way. Unknown to the police, it carries a pair of Red agents bent on toppling the Franco regime. Still another peek into the spyglass...