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...space. Now they think it has a more complicated structure. Last week two University of Virginia astronomers reported that the "red giant" stars seemed to be concentrated in a rough sphere near the hub of the galaxy. The commoner white stars (like the sun) had spread out in a wider, thinner disc. This discovery suggested that the red giants and the white stars may have had different origins. Perhaps all the galaxies had been formed in two great and separate spurts of creation...
...Burton of the U.S. Naval Observatory (who should have known better) seemed to hope that Diana could be used to map the moon. But Diana's 12° radio beam is 24 times wider than the moon by the time it gets there. Even an enormously narrowed beam would not give more detail than a first-rate telescope. Other astronomers were inclined to sniff at the moon as finished astronomical business...
...objectives that the Nation seeks be attained in isolation. If this country is to prosper, we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods as well as those of friendly nations...
Broadside. In Los Angeles, the Widows' Protective League asked the Los Angeles Transportation Clinic to do something about wider seats in buses...
Professor Barbour, a student primarily of reptiles and amphibians and their geographical distribution, had interests also in far wider fields. His triad of well-known books, "A Naturalist at Large," "That Vanishing Eden," and "A Naturalist in Cuba," the latter concluded in 1945, contain little of the dry matter of zoology, though omitting nothing that a good naturalist could gather. His recent "Naturalist in Cuba," selections from which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly, discussed not only the animal, insect, and plant life of the region, but its geology, history, sociology, its people and their food as well...