Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
...darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon's diameter. Four spots of red solar prominences appeared plainly during the eclipse. The planet Venus, which appeared even before totality, shone; also Mercury and several stars of first...
...only 8° above the horizon during totality and its darkened image was distorted by late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study the composition and behavior of the sun's outer envelope and to photograph the magnificent flare of the corona, that expeditions were waiting for the shadow at both these meagre vantage points. Two astronomers-James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton-decided to go to the point of maximum duration in a 6,000-ton freighter. They planned to take snapshots with hand cameras...
...Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization of the coronal light, a newly invented spinning filter for taking improved pictures of the corona, air conditioning equipment to keep the film cool and dehumidify the developing room, three NBC men to broadcast the performance to the world...
When you lean back after your cocktail, oysters, steak, apple pie a la mode, and liqueur and you puff away on a Corona Corona you feel well satisfied with life and not a little bloated. But you have really just begun your meal according to cook books of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries which may be seen by the undernourished and overnourished of our day at Widener Library...