Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stuck to it ever since. He started work on Sounders' Newsletter in Dublin, migrated to London and worked on The Telegraph. For a time he was connected with the London branch of The New York Herald. On his own account he founded and was the first editor of The Star, The Sun, The Weekly Sun, M. A. P. and T. P.'s Weekly. He is considered to be one of the most prolific writers of modern times. He is also official film censor for Great Britain...
...Einstein theory in respect to the bending of a ray of star light as it passes near the gravitational field of the sun has been verified to the utmost satisfaction of all scientists by the recent measurement of the photographic plates taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Australia in the fall of 1922", said Professor H. T. Stetson in commenting on the recently published results of the solar eclipse expedition of 11922, sent under the auspices of the Lick Observatory to Wallal in northwester Australia, a point on the path of totality...
...When Einstein propounded his theory in 1905 he said that it must withstand three tests, the second of which concerned the recent expedition. It is that any star near the limb of the sun (edge of disc) should be displaced away from the sun's disc by 1.75 seconds of are on account of the influence of the magnetic or gravitational field of the sun on the star's light which must pass near the sun in order to reach the earth. According to Newtonian physics this displacement should amount to but 87 seconds...
...These inaccurate prates were caused by several things. The climate, being warm, made it necessary to develop the plates in warm solutions, which often resulted in flukes or distortions in the photographs. Then again, since the cameras were not pointed directly at the starts, but received the solar and star rays by means of mirrors reflecting, the light into the lenses, the images of the stars were subjected to distortions even before they reached the camera lens, because the mirrors expanded or contracted with the slightest change in temperature. A third criticism arose over the method of measuring these plates...
...seconds. But as I have mentioned before the average proves nothing. The real merit of the result lies in the small variation in so many plates. The minimum displacement was 1.58 seconds of arc and the maximum 1.86 seconds. The results were derived from the measurement of 60-80 star displacements on each of four plates. The accuracy of the photography could not be denied, after the consistency of the results is considered...