Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Palomar Mountain became a scientific necessity 18 years ago. With the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson, near Pasadena, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble had made one of the most flabbergasting discoveries science has ever made. The whole visible universe, Hubble's data told him, is apparently exploding. The matter in space appears to be flying apart far faster than the white-hot gases of detonating...
...housed in a softly revolving dome 137 feet in diameter. The telescope weighs 500 tons, but is so exquisitely mounted that an electric motor not much bigger than an orange turns it on its bearings. Its 200-inch parabolic mirror gathers four times as much nebula light as Mount Wilson's 100-inch mirror. Palomar will see twice as far, and it may tell Hubble whether the universe is really exploding-or whether even stranger things are happening...
...they dissolved into vast congregations of faint stars, whose dimness suggested that they might be very far away. But astronomers, lacking a proper measuring stick, were not agreed. Some thought that the nebulae were comparatively near and small. Hubble's first step when he started work at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 was to find out definitely how far away they were...
Prince & Pauper. The feast-&-famine industries were really feasting in these days of shortages. In the packing industry, Wilson & Co. stock sold at 16¾, only 2½ times 1947's per-share earnings. Sugar stocks, depressed by the fear of a big Cuban crop, were about as low. Others...
...Such shipments were not specially specified in the records," answered Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. The House laughed good-naturedly. But the answer did not completely satisfy another honorable gentleman. "If there are any of the bottles left over," cried Communist Willie Gallacher, "will the Board President see that they are passed on to the miners in my constituency...