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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...velocity. The usual explanation of the reddening effect is that the luminous body's motion away from the observer "pulls out" the light waves, making them longer (redder) than normal. But since red light contains less energy per unit (photon) than violet light, Bubble's critics suggest that light may lose some of its energy in traversing space, thus turning redder. It may start out from a distant nebula as young, vigorous violet and arrive at the earth after millions of weary years as old, tired red. If that is what happens, perhaps nebulae are not moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Operating on the assumption that the Office should advise rather than place, John W. Teele and his small staff have done admirable work in job counseling. Rarely do they provide specific opportunities. First find out the man's interests and aptitudes, suggest several firms that may be able to use him, then send him forth to and a job himself. There is, it is true, much to be said for both the theory and practice of this system. Most Harvard AB's should be competent enough to hold down positions of responsibility, provided they have a liking and a natural...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Placement Problems | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

...fail to thrill at seeing a poem's genesis in a forest of sharp erasures, half-illegible inserts, blots, missteps and idle doodles. But only five work sheets are reproduced in Poets at Work, and the comments in the four essays which make up this book do not suggest that the analysts are likely to get far in pinning down the poetic mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeping Toms | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Weather bureaus, Stetson admits, can make little practical use out of sunspot cycle data, since they only suggest trends and nothing more. Furthermore, it is is impossible to tell where the effect will be felt. Last winter the apex of sunspot activity was received in Europe, and this winter a shift to the North American Continent has occurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Savants Fix Blame for Our Giant Snowfall on Sunspots | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...initiative, had not yet made any recommendation for an international force. The U.S. was worried by reports that Russia had planted agents and gunmen among the Jews trying to migrate to Palestine from Russian satellites in eastern Europe. Those reports made the U.S. all the more reluctant to suggest any U.N. police force which would include Russian troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Lonely Pilgrims | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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