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...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
...Kuiper, Lecturer in Astronomy, observed at Lick Observatory, California, that the Nova appeared to be taking the form of a double star. The gases around the nucleus take an eliptical form which we see from the side as a straight line, or nearly so. As nebulous matter appears thicker at the ends, these points appear brighter. The nebulous cloud is so bright as to dominate all light from the nucleus itself...
...North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness was 500 ft. But as he moved eastward, the layer, instead of dwindling as he expected, got thicker & thicker. At the brink of the Shelf the sedimentation was two miles deep. Thus it appeared that the Shelf was really not a part of the continental foundation at all, but simply a tilted ridge of petrified mud. The actual line of the basic rock beneath fell off directly from...
Long-heralded Italian drives got under way fortnight ago on the Northern Front and Southern Front, but orders which considerably mystified correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...
...appear next week, published by Willett, Clark & Co., Chicago religious book house, and edited temporarily by Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, Last week Christendom had found 4,000 thoughtful, learned, serious people as paid subscribers. Press run of the first issue will be 8,000 copies. Thicker than most religious publications, Christendom is better printed, has a secular-looking red cover. Full of theology, philosophy and urbane erudition, the first issue contains a short story by Zona Gale, articles by the Archbishop of York, Philosophers William Ernest Hocking and Gregory Vlastos, Dean Willard L. Sperry of Harvard Divinity...