Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every clear, moonless February and March night in the Northern Hemisphere, just after evening twilight and before morning twilight, the sky is faintly illuminated above the sunside of the horizon.* That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light. Over the opposite side of the night horizon is another just perceptible glow rarely perceived called the Gegenschein, or counterglow. In the tropics the Zodiacal light appears every clear night, except when the moon outshines it. The light of the milky way blots out the Gegenschein during December, January, June and July. Other times it matches the Zodiacal light. Last week before...
...another Reading Period flashes across the nether side of the horizon, none too brilliantly, the same old question arises as to the reason for its existence. Certainly one of the most important causes, if not the important; is to afford the faculty an opportunity to do more research work, and then under the rule of cause and effect, to publish the findings. It is difficult to quarrel with the proposition of whether the university of reputation exists for its students or for its teachers...
...19th Century, after countless years of elaboration, the craft of the carriage maker had attained near-perfection. Then the automobile appeared on the vehicular horizon. In the early years of automobile manufacture the traditions of the ancient carriage craft were continued. The first automobile engine was mounted on a buggy chassis. The new vehicle was popularly associated with its predecessor and nicknamed the "horseless carriage" and "gasoline buggy." Ex-carriage makers became automobile body designers. Early cars were frequently entered from the rear (dog cart), equipped with horsewhip stands, often painted black and usually festooned with fringe, beautified with brass...
...less energetic and far better bred than most westerns-a nice library arrangement of the earnest hero, the fragile heroine, the cattle-rustling, halfbreed badman. Around these puppets the beautiful photography is like a shell on whose glazed surface you can see reflected the arch of a great horizon and which, pressed to your ear, records the rustle of the air's phantom oceans over the prairie land, sounds of rivers, birds, hoofs. Best shots: the steers in the rapids; three cattle-rustlers hanged, with horses for a scaffold; the shooting match between the Virginian (Gary Cooper...