Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Elstner Talbott, dowager of Dayton, Ohio, energetic patroness-manager of Dayton's famed Westminster Choir, now on European concert tour ,TIME, March 25), arose from her chair ast week in Prague to reply to a toast which Prague Mayor Baxa had drunk to he choir in clear Czechoslovakian wine. Said she: "We are patriotic Americans. We don't drink, but thank you just the same." The Westminster Choir-singers are not supposed to use tobacco, either...
...clear in northwestern Sumatra and partly cloudy in the neck of the Malay Peninsula for about five minutes early one afternoon last week. Half an hour later ! there were three minutes of almost perfect weather in the Philippines. If there had been perfect weather in all places the world would have been happier. As it was, there was a fair amount of contentment. Several hundred thousand dollars had been ventured on the prospect of there being good weather in those peculiar places during those particular minutes. Some twelve expeditions had traveled half way around the globe with unwieldy scientific impedimenta...
...located, not only in Sumatra and the nearby Malay Peninsula where the eclipse had nearly its maximum duration, but also in the Philippines where the duration was considerably less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There should. however, be photographs good enough for valuable comparisons. Never before have photographs of an eclipse been taken at periods of a half-hour or more apart. If such photographs now exist...
...Audience. Scientists from the U. S., England, France, Germany and Holland made observations, took photographs. Among the U. S. observers were: Swarthmore's Dr. John Anthony Miller (famed among astronomers for luck-this was his seventh eclipse and all have been clear), in Sumatra; Harvard's Prof. Harlan True Stetson, in the Malay Peninsula; Commander Chester H. J. Keppler of the U. S. Naval Observatory, at Iloilo in the Philippines. Each had a train of assistants...
Under changed conditions of University life debating has necessarily lost much of its former prestige. With the passing of the Debating Union it is clear that undergraduate interest in debating has grown noticably weaker. While debating at Harvard must content itself with a limited field, it is all the more desirable that good management make the most of the remaining opportunities...