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Sunset came, dusk came, darkness came. The moon rose over the waters of the Pacific, where the scattered cruisers and destroyers of the Blue Fleet plowed on, looking for the dark line of the approaching fleet. But the Black Fleet had eluded them. It was nine in the evening when the first contact was made. The cruisers had gone too far afield. So had the defending destroyers. The three fleet submarines of the Blue defenders sighted the approaching fleet, however, and made for their position in its path. Suddenly, the vanguard of destroyers of the Black Fleet gave the alarm...
...View. Armed only with a smoked glass, it is possible to see the disk of the sun gradually eclipsed by the moon. As more disappears, dusk comes on. Then it may be possible to see shadow bands playing across the land, a phenomenon the exact origin of which is not known. As the eclipse becomes almost complete, it may also be possible to see "Baily's beads." These are little spots of light coming through the valleys of the moon like strings of bright beads. This is as much as an observer in the region of partial eclipse can hope...
...masterpiece of the exhibition. Sir William was also represented by his portrait of Mr. Goadby Loew, a lean, commanding gentleman folding wiry arms over a double-breasted blue waistcoat. There too was Anna Pavlowa by Malvina Hoffman; almost too slinky, too shiny-eyed a lady for that decorous dusk; Schattenstein's picture of Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry C. Cushing III), oval face, narrow eyes, pursed sleepy mouth; Halmi's portrait of Miss Constance Mc-Cann, a slim girl with red hair; Alfred Munnings' restrained, academical paintings of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr., Mr. Sidney Fish. There...
Hanover, N. H., October 20.--Dartmouth began a strenuous four-day drive for the Harvard game today when Coach Hawley put the first team through the longest practice of the season. When dusk set in, a ghost ball was employed in order that the practice might be continued longer...
...serene enough, over Texas to Tucson and Cochise, Ariz.; but in the late afternoon the mountains were reached, over which a wind was whistling jauntily. High in air climbed the dirigible, entering the Dragoon Pass; there was a great peak just as high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around, her propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment...