Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...
...Into Space. Even as an apprentice astronomer, Hubble concentrated on the nebulae-the faint patches of light scattered among the stars. Some had been proved mere wraiths, irregular clouds of dust shining by reflected starlight. Others, more interesting, were globes, ellipses, open spirals like patterns of fire from great spinning pin wheels. When the brightest of these were photographed with powerful telescopes, they dissolved into vast congregations of faint stars, whose dimness suggested that they might be very far away. But astronomers, lacking a proper measuring stick, were not agreed. Some thought that the nebulae were comparatively near and small...
Below him will lie the great mirror, like a pool of still black water dimly sprinkled with stars. Around him will flow the starlight, down to the mirror and up to the "prime focus" of the telescope (see drawing), a rectangular hole in a tablelike structure in front...
...Winston Grill served cocktails from a bar hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
...that President Truman's directive of last December, under which General George C. Marshall sought a compromise conclusion to China's civil war, had been outdated by events. Chiang's successes in the field had invalidated it. The Assembly meeting made hope for mediation dim as starlight...