Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barrett Wendell's reply, terse and clear, is as follows: "Pressure of professional work forbids me to send other than the briefest answers to your questions of the 12th. I answer them in order: 1, low; 2, by a persistent endeavor to impress on newspaper men some sense of veracity; 3, something not scandalous...
...will be helped or harmed by the publication of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The ideal journal's statements of fact will never be colored by prejudice, passion, bombast or humor (so called,) but will be rigorously exact, and will be expressed in simple, clear, compact and agreeable English. Its comments on current events will be animated by a steady purpose to say the right thing in the right way at the right moment, and will be characterized by accurate and independent thought, sound sense, good English and good manners. It will never treat opponents...
...full at 6.35 p. m. on that day. The eclipse begins at 4.30 p. m., but its total phase does not commence until 5.31. The middle of the eclips is reached at 6.20, and the total phase ends at 7.09, but the earth's shadow does not entirely clear the lunar disc until...
...Four 'Funny' Characters," is a cynical sketch of the life of four different types of college student. The style is rather too jerky and unpolished. Carlyle is jerky and unpolished; but Carlyle is forcible. Nobody can read "My Friend Blobbs" without enjoying its cleverness and the clear individuality which the writer makes out for his friend Blobbs. It seems he knows his man well, and he surely succeeds in making him "an open book" for all who will read this amusing sketch...
...beginning of a new era of astronomical discovery. It is on Mt. Hamilton, about fifty miles from San Francisco, and is 4,200 feet above the sea and escapes all the heat and mists of the valleys. The climate is such that three-fourths of the year are clear and stars do not twinkle owing to the equal temperature which prevails at night at that altitude. It contains the largest and most powerful telescope in the world, and is supplied with the best apparatus and arrangements that can be had. A full descriptions of it and its surroundings...