Word: directly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloud seems to be another system rather like the one in which we are whirled about Sagittarius. Dr. Shapley has found, by examination of the Cepheids variables in this cloud that the light from certain ones waxes and wanes, the period which the change in brightness takes having a direct relation, through the average brightness, to the distance of the Cepheids from us. In this way he has calculated that the large Magellanic cloud is 86,000 light years away from us, a light year being the distance that a ray of light travels in a year at the rate...
...plans that are of particular interest to Harvard. Statistics that show both Harvard and Chicago following Princeton in proportionate numbers of concentrators in the Classics may give a slight setback to the prevalent opinion that the first two strongholds of ancient literatures, but universities are the especial American these direct results of the investigation are less significant than the project for reviving the study of antiquity by means of translations...