Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because he has blazed new trails in Astrophysics. From his early adaptation of the 'period-luminosity relation' to variable stars in globular clusters, came a new and enlarged conception of the universe; from his studies of the Magellanic Clouds, new values of stellar brilliancy; from the Spiral Nebulae, new vistas of galaxies and super-galaxies, and interesting theories of cosmogony...
...ROCKET TO THE MOON?Vernesque romance of stellar exploration, vividly imagined...
...mother was the daughter of the late rich Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati and the niece of the late Chief Justice. His father is a vice president of New York Central R. R. He proceeded to St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he quickly developed a dashing stellar proficiency in hockey, a major St. Paul's sport. Here first his squinty smile, his shock of dark hair and high-pitched Taftian chuckle began to add up to that most imponderable of qualities, "Popularity...
...What have theories to do with love? ", she queried and the curtains dropped. The answer obviously enough, is nothing, and if you knew that little item before, you might as well stay away from the University theatre. That is, unless you'd like to watch three stellar comedians in action. Two of them are Laurel and Hardy in a two-reeler. Under the best direction issuing these days from Hollywood and certainly the most intelligent sound synchronization, these two work with pitiful dialogue, antedeluvian gags and no plot...
...subjects of the six lectures are as follows: 1. "Study of Starlight: brightness, colors, spectra"; 2. "Temperatures, Dimensions, and Masses of the Stars: relations between mass and luminosity"; 3. "Variable and Temporary Stars: relation between period and luminosity"; 4. "Interpretation of Stellar Spectra: ionization and consequences, stellar atmospheres"; 5. "The Same, continued"; 6. "The Interior of a Star: problems of constitution and Evolution...