Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of being completely blotted out by the earth's shadow, the moon will merely become darker, remaining visible throughout the celipse, he added...
Known as a "penumbral" eclipse, the process will begin at 9:28 o'clock and will end at 1:25 o'clock Monday morning, reaching its maximum between 11 and 12 o'clock midnight. At its height, the eclipse will be marked by a darker shadow on one side than the other...
...quality that might have tipped everyone off to what was really going on, according to Dr. Cantril, was pure, uninfluenced "critical ability." Some child listeners possessed and used this. They recognized Orson Welles's voice as that of The Shadow of a year prior. Compared to The Shadow's well-remembered activities, the War of the Worlds was tame stuff. On the whole, college-bred listeners who first thought the program was a news broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers...
...size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Savannah, Jacksonville-and ends in the Atlantic (see chart}. Texas' McDonald Observatory, which is 50 miles from the shadow path, will send a party into the path near the Mexican border to study infra-red radiation from the bright ring around the moon...
...attraction will be staged Oct. 1-a total eclipse of the sun, beginning in the Pacific, crossing South America, the South Atlantic, South Africa, and ending in the Indian Ocean. Because it crosses wide stretches of land, its shadow path will probably be as heavily studded with astronomers' camps as that of the total solar eclipse which four years ago swept clear across Asia (TIME, June...