Word: penumbra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this penumbra of exceptions and compromises is jazz. Though officially condemned by Nazi authorities, it has never been absolutely banned. Negro jazz bands are not permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...