Word: equinox
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...time being, retaliatory horror had to be withheld. For the R. A. F. needed all its energies to pound hard and continuously at potential German invasion bases. The equinox came, but not the enemy. The time for a fair-weather invasion ended, and the time for a foul-weather one arrived. Gales lashed the Channel, and along the French coast barges and small vessels were reported cast loose in confusion. And the air was thick with another kind of wind-that of rumor. The Germans were said to be returning small boats requisitioned from Norwegians. They were reported still sending...
...most serious suspicion growing in British minds was that invasion might be off for the present. The very fact of this increasing relaxation of expectancy led Winston Churchill and his colleagues to be more on the alert than ever. If by letting the equinox go past, Hitler was just confusing the British, the guard must stay up. If by letting it pass he had abandoned invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared...
This week, on Sept. 22, the sun reaches the autumnal equinox. At that moment in its apparent southward motion it crosses the celestial equator, stands vertically over the earth's equator. And that moment will be heralded by many a U. S. newspaper as summer's end. Thereupon Physicist William Warner Sleator of the University of Michigan will get mad again...
...27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder and I'm going to cook this putt," he drawled. To the astonishment of the gallery he did-and a few minutes later, the 20-year-old Cavalier was on the home green, intercollegiate champion...
...spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time its axis is about perpendicular to the sun. Thus the bombardment was broadside to the earth's north-south magnetic field. Dr. Stetson believes this happenchance helped make things worse...