Word: halos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...newspaper, a wrought-iron figure, a brunette en chemise. Another thing he likes is playing with webby threads of paint as a pastry cook plays with icing, to catch the light and give his canvases lustre. His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them. This highly mannered style does not satisfy Kuniyoshi, but it is the first one he has made fully and expressively his own in about 20 years of unhurried painting...
When chubby little Norbert Wiener was 14, he graduated from Tufts College. Reporters hailed him, and parents of ordinary children predicted that he would be a flash in the pan. When Norbert was 18, he emerged from Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he studied at Göttingen, Cambridge, Columbia. Today Norbert Wiener, at the age of 43, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks as one of the topflight mathematicians in the U. S. A familiar figure on the Tech campus, with...
Think mostly about your attitude towards Harvard--the idea of Cambridge which you have formed perhaps before you have seen it. Is it narrow and cynical, or broad and naive? Has it been illuminated or spoiled for you by parental words? Has it been crowned with a halo by your school friends? Whatever the answer, be open-minded when you reach Cambridge--and that means be suspicious of everyone and everything until you are sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity...
Ever since its inception a "halo" has hug about the head of the department, glorifying its high aims and standards. Although it is no mistake to say that the field is one of the best, it is wrong to claim that it affords the broadest education and is thus the hardest. History alone or English alone can in some cases offer just as much. What a student gains is in the end up to himself and his tutor. Undoubtedly more time is spent with one's tutor, both as Sophomore and Junior, than in any other non-scientific field...