Word: starlight
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...mass and energy: E = MC², where E is energy, M mass, C the velocity of light. Since then experimental physicists have converted matter into radiation and radiation into matter. In 1919 the fact that radiant energy responds to gravitation as matter does was demonstrated by the bending of starlight on passing around the sun. And, according to the theory, not only radiant energy but energy of motion had mass. Thus a steamship or cannon ball weighed infinitesimally more when moving than at rest...
...Starlight Roof Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan one night last week a cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...
...inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into feeble electric current, which in turn will be amplified tremendously by three-electrode vacuum tubes. The result will be a photograph clear enough to bring remote stars into Earth's "back yard...
...vicissitudes of life have not changed the Vagabond's silent enjoyment in the little things in life. Starlight, cool freshly laundered sheets, a patch of cloud, an ember glowing in the night, a dish heaped high with spaghetti bologiese and the light on the faces of little children, give him a twinge of sweet pain as if he had reawakened some memory of the days when his immortal soul strayed through regions bathed in endless beauty on the journey from the outer spheres. The Vagabond is old in love and the world has taught him to keep...
Stars look redder than most astrophysical criteria indicate that they actually are. This apparent astral rubrication might be due to 1) the speeding of stars away from Earth (the Doppler effect of lengthening waves) or 2) the scattering of starlight by star dust and star gases which permeate space...