Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three University astronomers will fly to Ceylon early next month to study the sun's corona during the longest solar eclipse in over 1200 years. Groups from throughout the United States and foreign countries will converge on the Island for the June 20 eclipse, including several which will conduct a major test of one of the late Albert Einstein's most famous predictions...
...Corona, Calif...
CHARLES OVERILL Corona Del Mar, Calif...
...piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would look at his own portrait and sardonically quote Whistler: "The innate vulgarity...
...that they had been reading about. But the scientists were taking no chances. One group, led by Dr. Donald Menzel, head of the Harvard College Observatory, took spectroscopic motion pictures from a high-flying Stratocruiser. A task force from the University of Chicago pictured the sun's glowing corona with a photoelectric scanning device more sensitive than any eye or photographic film...