Word: penumbra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dawning Luminary. The origins of this dawning luminary lay in biographical penumbra beyond the visual range of Hollywood scouts. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, Sept. 30, 1921. Her family was neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet...
...most definitive study of the U.S. national income appeared last week.* It was an eight-year study by the No. 1 student of what the U.S. earns for itself, University of Pennsylvania's Simon Kuznets. Studded with tables, and with warnings about what Mr. Kuznets calls "the penumbra of conceptual and statistical vagueness," it is bound to become a dogeared source book for students of the U.S. economy. It also has some conclusions of interest to laymen about that economy's 20 between-war years...
When Sherwood Anderson had written his way out of his own loneliness, he found he had nothing more to say. Famous and prosperous, he left the penumbra of the villages. For a while the Communists got hold of him and used him. He never knew what they were talking about but enjoyed sitting around mid-Manhattan bars, drinking beer with them. In 1927 he bought two papers in Marion, one Republican, one Democratic, and settled down to the life of a country editor. He was a big shot in the town, and the side of Sherwood Anderson that was sociable...
Last week the first event took place, a partial eclipse of the moon. It was invisible to the naked eye, because the earth's penumbra (zone of partial shadow) barely nicked the moon's outer edge. There is no "path" in lunar eclipses; when the moon enters the earth's shadow, the effect is visible from the whole hemisphere facing the moon's direction. Two other partial lunar eclipses will occur during 1940: a conspicuous, nearly total one, visible everywhere in the U. S., on April 21; an inconspicuous...