Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard astronomers have discovered a gigantic cluster of stars in the southern sky, which apparently belongs to no known class of cosmic systems, and which may thus reveal the existence of an entirely new group of star systems in the universe, it was reported today in the Harvard Observatory Bulletin by Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory...
From their star-counts, involving an extremely difficult enumeration of a mass of tiny specks on a photographic place, the Harvard astronomers estimate that there are about 10,000 objects in the cluster between the brightest stars, about 18th magnitude, and the dimmest that have yet been counted, about 19.5 magnitude. How many stars there are fainter than this has not yet been estimated...
Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...
...familiar wrinkled folds which look like sweetbreads, is the seat of reason and intellection. It is also the seat of emotional consciousness. But consciousness is not a process; it is an end-product. The mechanisms which produce emotional consciousness appear to be situated in the diencephalon, a central cluster of organs which is enfolded by the cerebral hemispheres...
Like her parents' Rise of American Civilization, like her husband's History of Militarism, Miriam Beard's book ends inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never...