Word: tremoring
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...there are few who do not respect his questing intelligence or the spiritual inspiration which has infused old ortho doxy with the tremor of new life. Most would agree with the words of the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, when he met Reinhold Niebuhr for the first time: "At last I've met the troubler of my peace...
...ahead, road crews strengthened bridges and culverts. The trailer crept over them carefully, while a vibration meter-connected with a microphone inside the case-reported each tremor of the mirror. But the driver needed no admonition. Like everyone else in the cavalcade, he knew that man's latest bright hope of understanding the universe was riding behind his truck...
...constellation of Scorpio is a "double" star. Antares has a comparatively faint blue "companion" which is so close that it is almost impossible to photograph by itself. Irregularities in the earth's atmosphere make the images of the two stars dance around, forming "tremor discs" of light which overlap on the photographic plate during a long exposure...
...certain nights when the atmosphere is not shimmering at its usual rate, the "tremor discs" become smaller and can be separated. Astronomer Struve watched his chances, and waited for seven years. Last month, McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Tex., had a wonderfully "steady" night. Struve trained the 82-inch reflecting telescope on the Companion of Antares. The image of the Companion trembled hardly at all. In a few rare minutes, he was able to coax it separately into a spectrograph and photograph its spectrum under almost ideal conditions without interference from the brilliant red light of nearby Antares...
What had happened to cause such a storm? Had it been inspired? Harry Tru- man's nomination of Lilienthal last fall had caused no tremor...