Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special study of the corona of total solar eclipses is being made at the Astronomical Laboratory by Assistant Professor H. T. Stetson, who has made trips to Sumatra, Norway and remote, portions of the world where total eclipses have occurred in recent years, in order to gather data. The photographic plates made in Sumatra in 1926, and in Norway last year, are being analyzed in an electrical apparatus developed for the purpose by Professor Stetson...
...corona, which is the circle of light observed when the sun is completely obscured by the moon, is a subject of controversy, among astronomers, Professors Stetson explained to a CRIMSON representative. The solution of the problem is important because of its relation to solar eruptions, or sun-spots, which are being made the subject of scientific study in connection with seasonal weather prediction...
...National Cash Register Co. and resembling a cash register with three banks of keys, is adaptable to all kinds of analysis and distribution works, as sales analysis, payroll, cost or expense distribution, purchase analysis, distribution of remittances received, stock & production control, and the like accounting intricacies. Victor and Corona typewriters both portables and both with standard 4-row keyboards, were sold to people who travel or do writing at home. Offices that require extra typewriters occasionally bought them for such emergencies. Victor Adding Machine Co. makes Victors; Coronas have been popular for 20 years. Remington and Underwood also make portable...
...that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element is called "coronium" for convenience...
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