Word: rimmed
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...clock.--Moon will make its first indentation on the sun's rim. This nick will grow quite speedily as the moon moves between the earth...
...lawn of the John Dickson Home for Invalids, in the northwestern part of the Capital, was erected, on an octagonal pedestal of yellow marble, four and a half feet high, a bird bath. Around its rim is inscribed: "Dedicated to the birds of Piney Branch by Elise and Jules Jusserand, 1903-1925." Piney Branch is a neighboring stream famous as a gathering spot for song birds. There Mr. Jusserand dedicated the fountain to his "feathered companions, from an old friend of Washington's warblers...
...points near the centre of the belt. During this brief period will be visible the rare sight of the sun's corona, ejections of gas driven out some millions of miles from the sun's seething fireball. This corona casts a ghostly light and exhibits itself around the dark rim of the moon, a glow from the sun at the inner ring, radiating outward in soft tints like a halo. Meanwhile, the sky is darkened and the stars are visible. Near the moon, and west of it, will appear a group of three planets, Venus nearest, then Mercury and farthest...
...large hat such as Mexican "greasers" wear, such as cowboys wear in the cinema-in short, a sombrero, its rim a burning red, its crown a brilliant blue, was given into the hands of Mr. Coolidge. After a short moment of admiration for so engaging a specimen of the hatters craft, Mr. Coolidge stuck his head under the hat's ample canopy-and in no time became a member of the Smoki Tribesmen of Prescott, Ariz. With the President in the rear grounds of the White House were representatives of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, who performed the initiative...
...misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $300 for any Congressman to use his letter franking privilege for other than official business. The General Manager of the Lever Lock Rim Co. used some 250 of Mr. McLaughlin's franked envelopes, with Congressional stationery, in sending out letters from the Company's Manhattan office. The letters were sent to "Republican friends," inviting them to subscribe to the Company's stock "on the merits of inside information...