Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during eclipse was among the apparatus used by the expedition, which has been called by Dr. Miller the "best equipped single expedition that has ever gone out to observe an eclipse of the sun." Other apparatus included a two flash spectroscope with which to obtain spectra of the corona,--the gaseous haze surrounding the dark disc during totality; an Einstein camera, the gift of Professor C. L. Poor of Columbia, and especially adapted to proving the Einstein gravitational theory, and a new type of interferometer called the "etalon", designed to detect motion in the Corona. In addition the apparatus included...
...photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...
First place in the annual competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy, open to students in the School of Landscape Architecture has been awarded to Richard Dean Sias 3S.L.A., of Corona, California. Second and third places went respectively to Herbert Devall Langhorne 1S.L.A., of Alameda, California, and Charles William Eliot 2nd. 2S.L.A., of Cambridge. Honorable mention was given to Malcolm Howard Dill 2S.L.A., of Richmond, Indiana...
University Scholarships in Landscape Architecture to William C. Dickinson of North Amherst, Mass., and Richard B. Sias of Corona...