Word: corona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning around 9:30, Roy Allison Roberts, his teeth clenching one of the dozen Corona-Coronas he smokes daily in defiance of his age (72) and his doctor (who allows him six), climbs out of his car before one of the homeliest buildings in Kansas City, Mo. The building quarters the Kansas City Star and its companion paper, the morning Times, and Roy Roberts is the boss. Neither he nor the building looks the part-nor, for that matter, does the Star look much like the usual daily newspaper. Roberts is rumpled and jowly, the very image...
TYPEWRITER IMPORT BAN is sought by U.S. typewriter manufacturers. The Tariff Commission will investigate a petition from Smith-Corona Marchant and Royal McBee asking for a duty of 30% ad valorem per foreign machine, with a minimum fee of $10. Main reason: imports account for a disproportionate 30% of the U.S. market...
...from the nucleus in a mere 10 million to 100 million years, which is only a tiny part of the life span of a galaxy. Since the nucleus is not drained, its hydrogen must be replenished somehow. Rougoor and Oort suggest that the replenishing hydrogen may come from the corona of thinly scattered hydrogen atoms that surrounds the whole galaxy like a huge spherical cocoon 80,000 light-years wide, working its way into the spinning disk at the top and bottom...
...device a disk is placed where an image of the sun and its corona is focused by a lens. This disk acts like the moon during a natural eclipse of the sun by blocking out or eclipsing the bright solar disk...
...totality though, persons should remove their glasses or even use binoculars to see the full brilliance of the corona. Menzel said the eclipse can easily be photographed with an ordinary camera at f/6.3 at 1/25th, warning that most persons "overexpose these things badly...