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...Mercury had an atmosphere, the sun's light would be diffused in passing through, causing the appearance of a halo around the planet, University astronomers explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARASKEVOPOULOS IN MERCURY REVELATION | 5/12/1937 | See Source »

...chap start shaking in his shoes about Finals,--or whether it's just because it's spring, and the flowers and birds and breezes are out and the sun doesn't look at you slantwise, we don't know. But the fellow who invented Spring Vacation deserves a halo and a crown of gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused the class struggle with the struggle between good and evil." Further Eisenstein faults were showing a collective campaigner with "an enormous beard and the manner of a Biblical Saint," showing the hero with a halo around his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rebuke and Reorganization | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...stars, one much farther away than the other but both in the same line of sight, the bending of light around the near star should make the far star appear as a luminous ring. Actually no telescope now in use would be powerful enough to bring out this halo, and the phenomenon, if ever observed at all, would appear simply as an increase in brightness of the far star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...comfortably on my plush pillows and tell others what to do to be happy, but I will be able to tell anyone anything, when I am able to meet them, eye to eye, on an equal footing. ... In case you think that's a phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy, and I'm going to be, as soon as I can do everything for everybody that I want to do without some one thinking, 'I wonder what she gets for doing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orders from G. H. Q. | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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