Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measures the distance of a star by studying its color, which changes as the light passes through the dust clouds of space. Shapley looks at variable stars, which grow brighter and dimmer with a regular period. This period often depends on the absolute brightness of the star; when Shapley knows the absolute brightness and the brightness as seen from the earth, he can easily determine the star's distance...
None but the last of these suggestions would seriously cut into House or Faculty budgets. And they would start the College on its way toward a day when "The Students' View" of, let us say, "Harvard Education 1953" would be a much brighter view...
...Martha's elephantine passion was only fanned the brighter. She told him a secret too-she had always wanted to be a lady embalmer. Fascinated as a male spider about to be devoured by his mate, little Ray took her along on his larcenous travels...
...Brighter Side...
...about repairs. Nijverdal could remedy that now. Burgomaster Witschey hoped for renovation of the down-at-heel town hall, too: a couple of months ago, mice nibbled through his desk drawer and ate up his old budget report. Witschey could laugh about it; the 1949 budget is a lot brighter...