Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during which they must make their photographs and observations. It is theoretically possible for an occultation of the sun by the moon to last as long as 7 min. 30 sec., but most are several minutes shorter than that. Last year's June eclipse, for example, whose shadow path across Asia was studded with astronomers' observation camps (TIME, June 22), lasted only 2 min. 31½ sec. at maximum. There was a tragic irony about the eclipse which on Tuesday of this week passed for thousands of miles across the tropical wastes of the Pacific Ocean...
...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...
...over the mass of pelicans, and with Yard cops bating their breaths a herd of students burst down the steps. There are a few cries of "Rinchart", the sound of moving bodies, and edging among the audience. The guy with a girl grabs here arm and carefully threads a path towards the gate. One hand lets fall a program, announcing a selection of songs that the Harvard Glee Club will sing to a species of people whom the Vagabond will watch as they watch him, this evening at seven o'clock...
Rocky and steep is the path that the Harvard baseball team will have to travel if they are to reach the pinnacle in the Eastern intercollegiate League...
Judge Gibson retired to his chambers to ponder these perplexities. Last week he emerged to announce that his mind was unchanged, to strengthen his restraining order by issuing a temporary injunction. Final hearing on a permanent injunction would be held later. Thoroughly vexed at this stubborn obstacle in their path, Government attorneys pondered whether to make one more attempt to win Judge Gibson over; to try to get the Manhattan Court to enjoin him; or to appeal the case to a higher Federal Court...