Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a hoary ground hog looking for a shadow, Rudyard Kipling has again ventured from his Sussex lair. But either his spring is late or Mr. Kipling has passed to disembodied immortality and the twilight of the gods. No shadow falls. This first new fiction volume of Kipling in six years, a collection of 14 stories, 19 verses, conveys chiefly an aged emptiness. The stories are, of course, masterfully told, but they are not masterpieces...
...temper of the world has changed and left behind it the Victorian sensibilities which Kipling pleased, life as he painted it remains, and with it the appeal and pertinence of his wisdom. The compassion with which he tells how Gadsby Memsahib walked through the Valley of the Shadow, and the open-minded acceptance of the metem-psychosis of Charlie Mears, are good in a modern day of sceptical worldliness. Even the Prime Minister might get a better glimpse of the soul of Mother India through the enlightenment of Pagett, M.P. But that is another story...
...Polish warships lay last week in Danzig harbor. Safe in the shadow of their guns the new High Commissioner proclaimed the Free City indissolubly Polish. Danzigers are mostly Germans, and everyone knows what Germans think of Poles...
...general brownness.- (The earth's atmosphere makes the earth shine blue and 40 times more brightly than the moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow is black.f But when the ball of the earth gets between sun and moon, as last week, sunlight niters through the fringe of the earth's atmosphere and is refracted into the shadow which the earth throws upon the eclipsed moon. Red predominates in that refracted light, because...
...August's will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the U. S. until 1979. Observers in New England and southeastern Canada will see totality for 1.5 min. Maximum possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7.5 min. During a total eclipse the moon's shadow slides across the earth at from 1,060 to 5,000 m. p. h., depending upon its distance from the Equator and the sun's position...