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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes and the Harvard observatories, will be in the region of partial but not of complete eclipse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passing of the Shadow | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

There are also disadvantages in the present eclipse. It will take place early in the morning, which is unfavorable, since the sun will be close to the horizon so that all light will come through the earth's atmosphere, at a great angle. Moreover, the region over which it passes is none too likely to have clear weather for observation purposes. At the hours of the eclipse and at the time of the year in which it takes place, the chance of clear weather at Buffalo is only 27%. The chance at Port Huron is 36%. The chance farther eastward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passing of the Shadow | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...create a new National Park in the East, somewhere in the Southern Appalachian Region. (A committee appointed to select a site for such a park is soon to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work's Report | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

Last week, the Izaak Walton League announced itself to be desirous of money offerings from U. S. sportsmen to make up a Christmas present to the elk herds of the Jackson Hole Region, Wyo. The present would be in the form of lands adjacent to Winter Elk Refuge and of an emergency hay fund, to supplement Federal and State appropriations in starvation winters. Said Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey: "And a real present in the spirit of the Christmas season it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wild Beasts | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...portion of this continent. One or two eclipses occur annually*; but many take place in out-of-the-way places; and one spot is not thrown twice in the shadow of a complete eclipse oftener than once in every few hundred years. The January eclipse will stretch over a region where none such has been seen in the memory of living man. Its narrow band of shadow will start at a point somewhat west of Duluth and stretch eastward, going out to sea across the southern shores of Connecticut. The southern boundary of the eclipse will include Duluth (Minn.), Menominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Forearmed | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

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