Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first experimental confirmation was the bending of starlight in the gravitational field of the sun, observed during a solar eclipse in 1919. Others are the "stretching" (increased wave length) of light from heavy stars, the conversion of mass into energy in the laboratory, the recoil of a body which emits light. Relativity also explains eccentricities in Mercury's orbit, which had remained a mystery under Newtonian mechanics. Atom-smashers who build cyclotrons (machines in which atomic projectiles are whirled by electric and magnetic fields) take into careful consideration the Relativistic increase in mass of fast particles. In brief, Relativity...
...other summer companies are within reach of the fevered Manhattanite who is looking for an evening's fun in the country. Long Island is dotted with them from the Red Barn Theatre at Locust Valley to the John Drew Memorial Theatre at East Hampton. There are also the Starlight Theatre at Pawling, the Maverick Theatre at Woodstock, the Country Theatre at Suffern, the Reginald Goode Theatre at Clinton Hollow. Upstate and outstate the summer theatre season becomes even more substantial. At Ithaca performances will be given by summer students of Ithaca College and of Cornell's University Theatre...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dancer Roberta Jonay (Jones), recently a fortnight guest at the White House (TIME, June 21), made her big time debut doing a Hungarian folk dance. Back at her ringside table she received the congratulations of her guests: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose friendship she won after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers...
...track of the invisible flow of cosmic rays through the sky, announced an inexplicable explosion of cosmic rays coming from a certain point in the heavens. Last week at that point in the sky a new star was seen to explode brightly. Hoping that the cosmicray burst and the starlight originated in the same explosion, Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology last week explained: "We have suspected for some time that cosmic rays travel faster than light and this may prove it. ... A colossal discovery...
...shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body imposed a curvature on the space around it, starlight would bend as it passed by the sun. Ordinarily stars close to the sun could not be seen. But, during the eclipse, a star which was actually at the edge of the sun's darkened disk appeared a small distance away from...