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...other the two stars deviated from the expected path in regular "oscillations" which could be explained only by the gravitational pull of a third body on them (as the Earth's orbit around the Sun is affected by the Moon). By measuring these deviations, he determined that their unseen companion was a body with about 16 times the mass of Jupiter (largest solar planet), that it revolved around one of the stars in a cycle of 4.9 years. Prodded by Strand's finding, astronomers soon located dark companions of other stars...
...Thro' a deep wood in unseen joyance dances...
...irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously, leaving an even deeper darkness. . . . Bright, large sparks occurred among the stars and vanished; they were bursting shells. . . ." When the Blitz was over, the village was spent, spiritually at its lowest...
...used uprights have doubled to $235, stocks of the popular new spinets (small uprights) have dwindled to the point where some stores are rationing them, selling only one a month. Dealers are scouring attics and haunting auctions to pick up stray instruments, are selling them by carloads, sight unseen, to Western and Southern buyers...
...wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning...