Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endless filament of space-time around the sun, the earth swung this week squarely between the sun and the moon. Earth's shadow did not turn the moon entirely dark, because enough sunlight was bent around the earth by atmospheric refraction to illuminate the satellite dimly. Since long red wavelengths of sunlight pass through layers of atmosphere more easily than short blue wavelengths, the color of the eclipsed moon was a dark, dull, coppery red...
...last week Evie gave up her usual afternoon activities to stand with White House newshounds outside the office of her friend Franklin Roosevelt. When the door opened she tumbled inside first ahead of the pack, and handed the President of the United States a big red apple wrapped in a white silk ribbon. "Is it a McIntosh?" smiled Mr. Roosevelt. "No, I'm sorry-it's a sheep's nose," trilled Evie. "We'll have to try them in Dutchess County," remarked Squire Roosevelt, still smiling, and turned to the business of his press conference...
Meantime, along Roaring Brook Road in rural Chappaqua, N. Y., workmen are completing a big, red brick building that is already beginning to look a good deal like a village high school. Here all Digest clippers & snippers will soon move from their Pleasantville offices...
...scarred cheeks (he was treated with radium for cancer of the face), is a familiar figure on Baltimore streets. In his lapel he wears a pink rose, sent fresh by an admiring friend four times a week. Below the rose is a large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What is the most important thing in the world?" The correct answer: Christianity...
Last week the baseball writers made their selections: Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox (in the American League), and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds (in the National). For big-nosed, slow-footed, 220-lb. Catcher Lombardi, who guided Rookie Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer through his two famed no-hit games last summer and outbatted (.342) every other player in the league this season, it was his first taste of fame in eight years of banging around the National League...