Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maximum duration in a 6,000-ton freighter. They planned to take snapshots with hand cameras, note the direction and length of the corona's streamers and take brightness measurements with photoelectric cells. Whatever the value of these observations, they could at least say they had seen a longer eclipse of the sun than any other astronomers of modern times. The better to see in the eclipse darkness, they said they would blindfold themselves for half an hour before totality started. For Dr. Stewart the ship's carpenter built a special chair, inclined far back so that...
...maximum swing of over 94,000,000 miles (mean distance: 92,900,000 mi.) and the moon near its minimum distance of 218,000 miles (mean: 235,000 mi.). This condition occurred this week. When the sun is farther away than usual, the shadow cone beyond the moon is longer; and when the moon is closer to earth than usual, the earth intercepts a thicker section of the cone. The maximum possible width of an eclipse path is 167 miles. At its noon point the shadow path of this week's eclipse was 153 miles wide...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with turkeys last autumn. From this type of practical relief the chain stores have gained most of their new-found farmer support. Asserting that...
Explaining that he had remained president much longer than he originally intended when he was elected 20 years ago, Mr. Teagle said he had carried the responsibility of chief executive officer long enough. Now he wanted more freedom for special work-meaning more time for first-hand study of the oil business...