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...Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...
...station will be equipped with a coronagraph, a new instrument for creating artificial solar eclipses and making possible regular observations of the corona, mysterious halo surrounding the sun, and also of other phenomena of the sun's atmosphere. This instrument is the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere...
...addressed did not respond; it persisted in motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school patriots who represent it as a struggle for a "better world...
Charles F. Brooks, director of the Meteorological Observatory, reported that from the University station on Blue Hill the observable phenomena included parhelic, a parhelic circle, a parhelion of 120 degrees, a circumzenithal are, an upper tangent are, and also the familiar 22 degree halo about...
...Pillar halos are caused by the reflection of strong lights from the faces of thin, flat snow crystals which tend to pancake while falling-that is, to keep their reflecting surfaces horizontal so that light rising from below is reflected practically straight down. Since turbulent winds tumble tiny snow crystals in all directions, thus dispersing the light, the brightest pillars are seen only on calm nights. A pillar is always the same color as that of the light at its base: the pillars above neon lights are red. The height of the halo is proportional to the strength...