Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from the Princetonian," he said, "but we haven't got any cigars yet. You're from Harvard ain't ya? Well I don't wancha to go and publish any slam at Princeton. We're going ta get the cigars all right, six boxes of 'em, Corona Belvederes. Here, read the letter." He handed the communication to the reporter...
...them. At two points in the blackness, 20 feet apart, flickers of light appeared, dancing white, blue, violet, spreading and leaping towards each other as the roar increased. Thousands of flaming lances stabbed the night horizontally, creating the halo of glowing purple known to electrical engineers as the "corona," a sign of wasting power. The crackle of sparks intensified, culminating in a fierce explosion, as a broad, jagged ribbon of blue-edged white flame leapt across the room from electrode to electrode. It was the hugest man-made spark in history and signified success in the testing...
...eyes? No. I saw one with a green dress at the Pops though, last Saturday night. She was divine, if divine means inhuman. For really they don't make them in that model any more. I had just heard the Spring Song and was smoking a very good cigar, Corona Belvedere (adv.) and for a moment I forgot that Plato had very little regard for the less intellectual sex. But it was only a moment. I remembered Plato and munched a pretzel, remembered Epicurus and prayed for beer...
...understood, and the book should stimulate an interest in atmospheric phenomena among those who do not care to make a real study of the subject. Some beautiful half-tones, mostly of clouds, but also including a few of frost, fog, and lightning and an especially good one of a corona, certainly add to the interest of the book. The press-work and the binding, it is hardly necessary to add, are above reproach...
...after lunch on Jan. 14 their three important minutes came to these men. Cables began whisking the news back to civilization. The objectives and seeming successes of science had been: Data for determining the structure, shape, temperature, motion (if any) and "coronium" (unknown constituent element) of the flame-fringed corona-good photographs obtained with cameras up to 62 ft. long. Data to check Einstein's theory of "bent light," obtainable by photographing stars near the sun with a twin-lens camera- doubtful photographs taken. Data on lunar motion, obtainable by noting whether or not the eclipse occurred exactly...