Word: coronae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Mexicans hope for loans, treaties and boundary changes from the President of the U.S. on his visit this week. Shy, plump Genaro Corona Morales, the legless bootblack of the presidential palace, just wants to shine Harry Truman's shoes...
Newest of the college Observatory's outposts is the Solar Station at Climax, Colorado, operated, since 1940, under the joint auspices of the Observatory and the University of Colorado. Equipped with the first Lyot coronagraph in the Western Hemisphere, an instrument which enables astronomers to observe the corona of the sun without waiting for an eclipse, the Climax station is situated at an elevation of 11,520 feet above sea level, a higher altitude than that at which fliers are advised to use oxygen...
Another approach is the "coronagraph," developed by Dr. Bernard Lyot of France in 1930. It is a telescope with an internal disc hiding the face of the sun, and specially designed to eliminate glare. Though tricky, it works even better than the spectroheliograph, showing the corona, the faintly glowing halo which surrounds...
...well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...