Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutchins (no kin): "I am convinced that the plans they have in mind will make St. John's an important centre of liberal education in the U. S." No such centre today, St. John's is a small (enrollment: 250), State-subsidized school struggling unimpressively in the shadow of the Naval Academy. Its long educational decline was climaxed under the presidency of one-time (1930-33) U. S. Prohibition Administrator Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, who resigned two months ago after a squabble with the Board of Governors. Under the reign of President Woodcock, St. John...
Amelia Earhart became a good friend of Eleanor Roosevelt who shared her belief that women should not stand in the shadow of men. In 1931 she married Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who never dissuaded her from flying wherever she wanted to go. Keynote of Mrs. Putnam's career was the title of her book, The Fun Of It. But she professed interest also in the scientific aspect of flying. She became a consulting member of Purdue University's faculty, specializing in aeronautics and careers for women, and last year acquired a Wasp-motored Lockheed Electra which was supposed...
...SHADOW ON THE LAND-Syphilis-By Thomas Parran, M. D.-Reynal &- Hitchcock...
...quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship was also moving east at eight knots...
Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...