Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was deep, dark blue in daytime (TIME, June 8, 1931). Last week, floating down from a flight of logic. Astronomer Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory declared in the Astrophysical Journal that the universal sky should not be dark, day or night. It should be light blue. Starlight striking star dust should make the general illumination of cosmic space as blue as the daylight sky seen from the surface of Earth. If Professor Piccard makes his proposed flight from Chicago next July, he will have Dr. Struve's purely calculated vision of the empyrean to controvert...
When President Roosevelt opens the whole show May 27, he will use a beam of starlight from Arcturus instead of a bottle of milk, a beam that started towards the earth the year Chicago last held a world's fair. That was in 1893, only 40 years ago, but the party Rufus Dawes and his brother Charles and their Chicago friends are giving this year to (they hope) 50 million guests, is "A Century of Progress," referring to Chicago's founding...
...asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge...
...assumption is that "the strange light originates at some distance above the Earth's surface, in a layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection of sunlight. In any case astronomers, astrophysicists and meteorologists have a new concept of the atmosphere's optical properties to develop and evaluate...
Johns Hopkins' Pharmacologist John Jacob Abel, 75, assumed the A. A. A. S. presidency, succeeding Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas, 74. For 1934 president the Association chose Princeton's Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, 55, after he had presented his interpretation of starlight. The light might be the effect of 1) hydrogen and the lighter elements synthesizing into heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough...