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...electromagnetic waves, which are much harder to handle than the visible light that the human eye receives with such marvelous ease and precision. Radio waves are many thousand times longer than light waves, and because of inflexible laws of physics, this means that radio telescopes must be enormously wider than optical telescopes before they can distinguish objects equally small...
...year and a half later, it has become clear that Mrs. Bunting had no blueprint in mind. She hoped that organizing the Quad into House units would improve faculty contract and make a wider range of activities available, she wanted the students themselves to explore the possibilities of the framework...
...Sino-Soviet split is getting wider...
...neither is there anything repetitive, a testament to the ingenuity with which O'Hara mines the invented earth of Gibbsville, Pa., and the ugly towns of eastern New Jersey. As usual, the social range of his characters-from the carriage trade to tradesmen who sell carriages-is wider than their moral range, which is the few degrees between halfway-decent and not-very-nice...
...wider choice of vegetables was suggested by undergraduates, but the official promised nothing, "It annoys some people to make a choice, anyway," said Miss A.B. Atkinson, the Central Kitchen dieterian. When two main dishes are offered it would be a very expensive matter to let a student have both, thought Carle T. Tucker, director of the food service...