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179 “to renew as soon as you are able to accept it”: MWDF, Hale to Hubble, April 19, 1917.
180 “Stirring times”: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), p. 9.
180 rendered unconscious at one point by a shell exploding nearby: HUB, Box 7, Grace's memoir.
180 no “wound chevrons” were authorized: HUB, Box 25, discharge certificate.
180 “I barely got under fire”: Christianson (1995), p. 109.
180 posh dinner hosted by the best and the brightest of British astronomy: Ibid., p. 110.
181 “My interest has for the most part been with nebulae especially photographic study of the fainter ones”: MWDF, Box 159, Hubble to Hale, May 12, 1919.
181 “I had been hoping” … “as we expect to get the 100-inch telescope into commission very soon”: MWDF, Hale to Hubble, June 9, 1919.
181 arrived in New York on August 10: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), p. 11.
181 “Just demobilized. Will proceed Pasadena at once unless you advise to contrary”: MWDF, Hubble to Hale, August 22, 1919.
181 September 11, 1919: Christianson (1995), p. 122.
12. On the Brink of a Big Discovery—or Maybe a Big Paradox
182 He was a man of endless enthusiasms: It's been suggested that Hale suffered a severe form of manic depression, a psychiatric syndrome marked by periods of elevated mood, physical restlessness, and sharpened creative thinking, interlaced with bouts of depression. See Sheehan and Osterbrock (2000).
182 “a driving power which was given no rest until it had brought his plans and schemes to fruition”: Wright (1966), p. 17.
182 “He has reached a place where scientific work and honors are not enough”: Osterbrock (1993), p. 157.
182 In the summer of 1906 he spent a weekend at the home of John Hooker … secret of their mysterious nature: Wright (1966), pp. 252–53; Osterbrock (1993), p. 92.
183 Hale's younger brother, Will, once called George the greatest gambler in the world: Wright (1966), p. 184.
183 “We don't pay for this!”: Ibid., p. 254.
183 “that glass was in the bottom of the ocean”: Wright (1966), p. 263. Evelina Hale through these times fiercely protected her husband and wished the 100-inch glass disk gone in a letter dated December 24, 1910, to astronomer Walter Adams, who served as the Mount Wilson Observatory's acting director in Hale's absence. In that message she beseeched Adams to send no bad news to Hale during his recovery.
184 made a good case: See Sheehan and Osterbrock (2000), p. 105.
184 he initiated the grinding: Osterbrock (1993), p. 142.
184 “there was more publicity … than was desirable”: MWDF, Adams to Hale, July 5, 1917.
185 “To add to the gloom”: Adams (1947), p. 301.
185 first Hale then Adams returned … at 2:30 in the morning: Wright (1966), pp. 318–20.
185 “High in heaven it shone”: Noyes (1922), pp. 2–3.
186 “Very little has been done with it … because of the war contracts in the shop”: HUA, Shapley to R. G. Aitken, October 14, 1918.
186 Ritchey, for example, had to turn his attention to making lenses and prisms: Osterbrock (1993), pp. 144–45.
186 “In such an embarrassment of riches”: Hale (1922), p. 33.
187 took about an hour then to make the journey in a motorcar: HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.”
187 Seven days later Hubble tried out the 60-inch telescope … “striking changes have happened [in t] since 1916”: HUB, Box 29, Logbook; HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.”
187 “He was photographing at the Newtonian focus of the 60-inch”: Humason (1954), p. 291.
187 what he called his “magic mirror”: HUB, Box 1, “The Exploration of Space” lecture.
187 Hubble's first night on 100-inch: HUB, Box 29, Logbook.
188 The variable nebula soon became his observational “mascot”: This is according to Milton Humason. HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.”
188 each was entered into his official Observing Book: HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.”
188 got a paper published fairly quickly: Seares and Hubble (1920).
188 “to determine the relation of nebulae to the universe”: LWA, Hubble to Slipher, April 4, 1923.
188 “We are on the brink of a big discovery—or maybe a