Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor King went on to describe the corona, the particular phenomenon of the eclipse which the University Observatory is concentrating...
There have been only seven such eclipses since the beginning of the Christian era. Besides 1778 when New England got its last look at this phenomenon, eclipses have occurred in the years A.D. 230, 319, 364, 985, 1079, 1478. There will be a gap of 99 years before it occurs again...
...Syracuse (N.Y.), Springfield (Mass.) and Providence (R.I.) will be a mile or two outside of the totality band of the eclipse. The duration of the total eclipse will be about two minutes, during which observatories will photograph the sun's corona and the moon. The hour of the phenomenon will be between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., Eastern Standard Time...
...psychologist of today exhibits the phenomenon of "color hearing" as one of the marvels of the age. In listening to a symphony the people who possess this strange faculty are said to see all the colors of the spectrum succeeding each other in harmonious arrangement. Some tones, they say, are red, others voluptuous purple. Even the ordinary man is now familiar with languid blues in music...
There is a happy ending, deftly provided, that does not matter. What does matter is a novel that presents almost perfectly a tragic, if common, social phenomenon-a novel with guts and sinew under its smooth skin of literary urbanity...