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This new type reflector, it was explained, combines the advantages of the reflecting telescope and of the large-field photographic refractor. If both refracts and reflects. Ordinary reflecting telescopes cover satisfactorily only a fraction of one square degree of the sky at a time, but the new Jewett Reflector can cover from ten to a hundred square degrees, depending on the properties chosen for optical parts and mechanical parts. It is particularly effective for surveys of the distribution of galaxies and stars, variations of stars, and other problems where a large coverage and high speed are essential...
...soccer were individual greats of the year. One of the Crimson's greatest competitors and middle-distance runners, Lightbody doubled in the 600 and 1000 to inspire the trackmen to their Quadrangular win. He set a new Harvard half-mile record, and lost to Burrowes of Princeton by a fraction in the I.C.A.A.A.A, half mile, one of the great foot races of all time...
...were beginning to think that the danger of invasion or massed attacks from the air is past. I must warn you against relapsing into any mood of complacency. The future may well hold for us far greater ordeals than any through which we have yet passed. Only a small fraction of the Germans' heavy bomber force has yet been, engaged...
...Jones: "Will, I'm afraid of short lines, but I'm not afraid of one owned and operated by a bunch of Scottish Presbyterians." Five years later the loan was repaid. Blessed with a non-absentee ownership (the Blues and their two sisters own all but a fraction of the common), A. & R. can afford to indulge its whims. Because it had wrecks on three successive Thanksgiving Days, A. & R. operates only five days in Thanksgiving week...
Work Done seemed to add up to mighty small potatoes. Of $5,400,000,000 which Congress had voted for Defense since May, a piddling fraction had actually been spent. An enormous job of planning had to be done first. In charge of the planning were Industrialists William S. Knudsen, Edward Stettinius Jr., some 200 high-powered colleagues on the President's National Defense Advisory Commission. Getting these talented bigwigs down to coordinated work was in itself a big, time-taking job. Up to last fortnight, most commission spark plugs always had time for an easy hour...