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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approval of increasing the size of the College would permit efforts to strain the last possible space out of University buildings. Watson pointed to the possibility of converting the Hemenway Gymnasium into a temporary dormitory...
Mayor Lawrence's trouble was a condition known as "detached retina." A section of the retina (the eye's inner nerve coat) is torn loose from the choroid (the spongy surrounding membrane that normally supplies the retina's nourishment). The space between the retina and choroid fills up with fluid, gradually enlarging the break. As the undernourished retina deteriorates, the patient's vision blurs, eventually fails...
Astronomers get most of their information by studying and analyzing the light of the bright stars. They know almost nothing about the smaller bodies in distant space which are not self-luminous, i.e., planets, meteors, comets. But they suspect a great deal and are forever looking for proof. Last week, in Science magazine, Russian-born Astronomer Otto Struve, head of the observatories of Chicago and Texas Universities, described some delicate observations that allowed him to spot tiny meteors 250 light years (about 1,500,000,000,000,000 miles) away...
...study of the spectro-photographs showed Struve several faint lines - which did not come from the Companion itself, but from space around it. Using the exact technique of spectroscopy, he proved that the lines were made by light waves characteristic of iron...
What was iron doing in cold space many million miles away from the nearest star? Struve concluded that both stars, Antares and Companion, must be surrounded by a vast swarm, of meteors, like the iron-nickel meteors which bombard the earth. Apparently they shoot through an enormous region 50,000 times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...