Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special equipment has been installed at the Laboratory for preparing the sunspot data. After the photograph has been made the image of the sun is projected by a special optical lantern onto a white globe, so that the position of the spots on the sun's surface can be accurately determined. The number and the location of the spots, with their areas, is forwarded to Washington...
...partly because the court is still in mourning for the late Emperor Yoshihito, who died last December (TIME, Jan. 3), and partly because there was no disguising the disappointment of the Royal House and the nation in the birth of a second daughter, there will be no great, gay lantern parades, no dancing in the streets, no flowery songs and no flashing oratory, no processions, no fireworks. The new little Princess comes to the Flowery Kingdom unheralded, unsung. Such is the way of the Orient...
...packages of diaper cloth; electric lamps; 200 specially-designed book-ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk...
Professor Charles Diehl, of the University of Paris, and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, lectures this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Old Fogg Museum on Byzantine Art in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." The lecture will be given in French, and is to be illustrated by lantern slides. It is open to the public...
Previous to this time the only interruptions that have occurred in Professor Merriman's lectures, have been occasional lantern slide lectures...