Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is true, NASA scientists reasoned, distant galaxies probably give off large amounts of the same invisible radiation. But those galaxies are receding from the earth (because of the expansion of the universe) at speeds that would cause ultraviolet light to shift toward the red end of the spectrum into visible frequencies. So the NASA men assumed the visible light from distant galaxies is intrinsically brighter than previously believed; therefore those galaxies must be farther away. "We thought we were looking at a dim light bulb close to us," a NASA scientist explained. "But now that we know that...
...Young Americans for Freedom. After 93 years of campus monopoly, the Daily Princetonian is being challenged by an offset giveaway called the Princeton Notice, which veers erratically from left to right. M.I.T. now boasts no fewer than five campus papers representing virtually all shades of the student political spectrum...
...deny Democrats the sure votes they once could count on in Dixie. Wallace's re-emergence could once again cost Nixon the electoral votes of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It could also force him to risk losing the support of those in the center of the political spectrum by more actively courting the hard-liners in the South. This could split the conservative vote in states like Georgia and Arkansas and give the Democrats there a victory by default...
...three-year Air Force grant of $160.000 presently supports research on the radio frequency spectrum of the sun. Goldberg said, however, that the Defense Department authorized the funding merely because "the sun has an affect on communications...
...called upon, of course, for routine readings of economic happenings and business activity. Rather, its members will act as consultants on major developments-as well as gather four times each year with the editors in New York for a full day of wide-ranging discussion across the entire spectrum of past, present and future economics...