Word: sumatra
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...then only by human organisms that have not been out of the primeval ooze long enough to lose their religious adoration of the sun's life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light...
...they have traveled according to schedule, a party of Swarthmore College scientists and their wives have reached Benkulen, in the Dutch East Indian island-continent of Sumatra. The wives are adapting themselves to the comforts of a miserable hill-perched village, while the scientists are setting up sky-scouring 'scopes. Nearby, anchored in the blaze of ocean, is the naval transport, Chaumont, nest of balloons, dirigibles, airplanes. Both the Swarthmore men and the U. S. Navy men are preparing for three weird minutes on Jan. 14, when the sun will be blackened, the earth move to the dance...
...observe the total eclipse of the sun for the island of Sumatra on January 14, 1926, Professor H. T. Stetson, assistant Professor of Astronomy, will leave Cambridge tomorrow for San Francisco, from where he will sail for Sumatra on November 7, with three associates...
Approximately one and a half tons for equipment, including a 20-inch reflecting telescope, loaned by the college observatory, along with radio-metric and photometric instruments were shipped from Boston about the first part of this month, and will have arrived in Sumatra by the time the observers land there on December...
...under 50, the stock shot up to about 70-not because it was intrinsically worth so much as because so many people had sold it who did not own it. The Stock Exchange is closely watching the stock, in fear of a corner developing. The "shorts" must either buy Sumatra preferred at high prices and get rid of a bad bargain, or else stay short, borrowing, the stock and paying a premium of ½% or more a day ($50 a day on each 100 shares...