Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, on June 19, a sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
First total solar eclipse since February 1934, at its broadest, near Lake Baikal, the shadow across Asia's face was 82 miles wide. Length of path: 8,900 miles. Maximum duration of totality: 2 min. 31½ sec. For months past the Soviet Government has been sending lecturers and demonstrators into villages along the eclipse path, so that ignorant peasants would not become terrified and backslide into orgies of religious propitiation...
...astronomically possible for a solar eclipse to last as long as 7 min. at one spot. Exceptional was this week's performance, not for duration of time or dimensions of shadow path, but because its course ran almost wholly across land. Thus a wide choice of observation sites was available. Eleven parties from the U. S., England, France, Italy, Poland and Japan set up stations somewhere along the totality strip. The U. S. S. R. outfitted 25 expeditions. One group of Russians had balloons with automatic instruments on top, which, in case of bad weather, they planned to send...
...under the conical shadow of the moon, astronomers are willing to travel thousands of miles with cumbersome equipment, spend months of laborious preparation because the fleeting seconds of totality enable them to check whether the solar system is running according to calculations; to observe the effect of masking the sun on radio, weather and other terrestrial phenomena; to study the shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body...
Promises made by most first novels are rash. But the promise of Katharine Hamill's Swamp Shadow has good collateral behind it. Her tale of poor whites on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is neither dreary case-history nor melodrama plastered together with notebook dialect, but an ably written, objectively presented story of some forgotten men & women...