Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather deaf but very active," there arrived in the U. S. Viscount Leverhulme, King of Port Sunlight, the home of soap, on board the S. S. Majestic. He was accompanied by his son, the Hon. William Hulme Lever, also by an old school fellow, Jonathan Simpson, and by five directors of his various companies...
...heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, analyzed the heat of nine other great stars-Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Alpha Herculis, Beta Pegasi. He employs the Nichols radiometer, a delicate instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which can be measured. These stars represent all the main types, from blue...
...clock every night; turned off at 2 in the morning, giving five hours of light additional to the normal sunshine. Between time, the plants are allowed to "sleep." Celery plants doubled in size in six weeks, and roses, carnations, lilies bloomed eight days before their sisters grown by sunlight alone. The system will eliminate flower " famines " on such occasions as Easter Day, and dearth of out-of-season delicacies retarded by cloudy weather...
...change which has suddenly come over the aspect of English A can best be likened to the sudden burst of sunlight when the lowering clouds have blown away. If the course proves as interesting and as valuable as the advance notices presage, the time may come when incoming freshmen no longer try to avoid it by the way of the anticipatory examination...
Allan Lindsay, a 3-year-old New Orleans boy, has a rare skin disease called xeroderma pigmentosum. The color cells in his skin are too numerous and too near the surface. When the sunlight strikes them they become greatly inflamed and cause painful ulcers. His face is the shrunken visage of an old man. The nurses at the Charity Hospital call him " Grandpop." The disease is fatal unless the sun can be kept away from the skin. A New York electrical engineer devised a protective armor to filter the sun's rays so that only those milder than...