Word: spectrum
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...generally supposed to have a magnetic field more powerful than that of the earth. The scientific reasoning: the lines in the sun's spectrum seem to show the "Zeeman effect," splitting in two like the lines in a laboratory light source affected by magnetism. But Dr. Martin A. Pomerantz of the Bartol Foundation had long doubted the sun's magnetic field. Last summer he set out to disprove the theory by the apparently far-fetched method of catching cosmic rays with sounding balloons near the earth's north magnetic pole...
...Queuille is a Radical Socialist (in the French spectrum, somewhat to the right of center). For more than a year he had shepherded a coalition cabinet of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans. He had frozen wages; but prices kept on oozing upward...
...booklets are written by anthropologists and musicologists, edited by Folklorist Harold Courlander, who also decides what selections go into the albums. Says he: "The more you hear of this stuff, the more you get to feel that all music is one. I like to think of it as a spectrum. As you go round the world, one music blends into the next . . . and before you know it you're back where you started, without a break...
Professor Armin Deutsch is investigating another kind of variable star, which regularly changes color. Only 20 of them are known, and to astronomers the varying spectrum suggests that millions of tons of calcium are changing into other chemicals. So far Deutsch has not found much--only that these stars are surrounded by strong magnetic fields; 5000 times greater than the earth...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...