Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand years hence, when historians gravely chronicle the 20th Century U. S. theatre, diving now & then into their glossaries for light on "strip-tease" or "meat show," they may wonder why, for a time, the theatre harped on human frailties- Follies, Vanities, Scandals-and then suddenly ceased to harp. They may perhaps write learned, ingenious essays describing the rise and fall of the morality play on Broadway, never dreaming that what they chronicled was the rise and fall of the musical show...
...than any of the other elements, condenses more rapidly. The sun frequently ejects matter from its atmosphere and R Coronae Borealis may very well do likewise. This cast-off material, reasons Astronomer O'Keefe, condenses rapidly, since it is carbon, and forms a sooty cloud which obscures the light of the stars. One per cent of the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere of R Coronae Borealis could cut out 99% of its light. Astronomer O'Keefe supposes that as the cloud dissipates the stars appear bright again...
...that the increased brilliance would be accompanied by generation of additional heat, but they were mistaken. For the temperature of Gamma dropped from 28,800° F. to 15,660°. Last May the star attained its greatest brilliance, suddenly "took a nose dive," said Dr. Baldwin, as its light ebbed. Paradoxically its heat increased. It is now at normal temperature again. At present it is racked by tremendous disturbances and is "blowing away its atmosphere." Most logical explanation, said Dr. Baldwin, was that Gamma's compressed atmosphere expanded so rapidly that its gasses were cooled. Thus the star...
...pronoun, the book explains further, is a "stand-in" for a noun; adjectives are "gossips" that "tell on" nouns and pronouns; a verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game...
Stopping first at New Haven, Conn., to pick up the Yale students making the cruise the ships then proceeded direct to Havana, Cuba for a three day visit. On the tip down all students carried out a detailed schedule of daily training, witnessed fueling a destroyer at sea, search-light demonstrations and the running of a man-of-war in its entirely including engineering, navigation and communications. They were able to put into practice many of the things learned in the classrooms here and in addition were able to get a first hand picture of life aboard...