Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James M. Landis, Chairman of SEC who next autumn is to become Dean of Harvard Law School, was renominated for his present job by the President-so that he should not be lost till school begins...
...outside to escape the friction at the turn, pushed his steed fresh down the sun-baked stretch, streaked up to a clean length's lead. Mid-Day Sun held fast to the finish-for a slow 2 min. 37 3/5 sec.-with Sandsprite and Le Grand Duc second and third...
...most precious moments in the stream of time are the fleeting minutes and seconds of a total solar eclipse, during which they must make their photographs and observations. It is theoretically possible for an occultation of the sun by the moon to last as long as 7 min. 30 sec., but most are several minutes shorter than that. Last year's June eclipse, for example, whose shadow path across Asia was studded with astronomers' observation camps (TIME, June 22), lasted only 2 min. 31½ sec. at maximum. There was a tragic irony about the eclipse which...
...Starting in the open sea at sunrise, it darkened the tiny specks of the Phoenix Islands shortly after 8 a. m., then the shadow rolled on across the sea, stabbing into Peru just before it ended at sundown. In the Phoenix Islands totality lasted 3 min. 35 sec. In Peru, where it lasted 3 min. 24 sec., the sun was only 8° above the horizon during totality and its darkened image was distorted by late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study the composition and behavior of the sun's outer envelope...
...future of Cinema Arts will depend heavily on how its backers fare with an issue of 170,000 shares of stock at $2 a share, subject to SEC approval, to be offered to the public by William J. Mericka & Co. this week. Publisher Griffith-Grey -who enlarged his name in 1915 to avoid being confused with his famed brother, for whom he used to distribute pictures like Broken Blossoms, Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation-determined 18 months ago to get out Cinema Arts. Last autumn he startled the magazine world with the biggest dummy ever seen...