Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element is called "coronium" for convenience...
...fiery gases and small particles of carbon, magnesium, sodium, etc. The explosion of a meteor is due to its rapid combustion in the dense atmosphere near the earth. It is estimated that some 20,000,000 meteors, which would be visible to the naked eye in the absence of sunlight, moonlight or clouds, enter the atmosphere every...
There is the joy of shooting up through the clouds on a grey day and suddenly emerging in unexpurgated sunlight. The rarity of the atmosphere begins to be noticeable above 8,000 feet. Breathing becomes slightly more difficult and one's body feels lighter...
...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
From this it may deduced that it is not only from those athletically inclined that prayers for a beaming sun, a dry sod or a smooth river surge forth, but equally from those to whom a flash of sunlight against closed lid means a 9 o'clock achieved, whereas a cloudy sky means rest undisturbed until much later hours...