Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Silver trumpets fanfared. The royal procession moved across St. Peter's Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
Coincident with his 47th birthday last week, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocket inventor (TIME, July 29), disclosed his invention of a sun engine. His laboratory model consists of a parabolic mirror one foot in diameter, which focuses sunlight upon a hollow glass sphere five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The sphere contains water and finely divided carbon. The focused light passes through the clear water without heating it. But when the light strikes the opaque carbon, the carbon heats almost instantly and in turn heats the water, which turns to steam. The steam escapes through a hole...
...steam turbine. The turbine would operate an electric generator. Efficiency of such a sun engine would be 50% of the sun energy fused.* Professor Goddard calculates that such an engine would produce 30 h.p. while operated under a clear sky between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., when sunlight is strongest in the U. S. If storage batteries were used, the owner could get an average of 4 h.p. per hour day & night, all year around...
Mellow-September sunlight, the football squad practicing formations on the field, dingy curtains blowing from the windows of club houses and fraternities and automobiles parked outside the administration buildings...
James Harvey Robinson, himself a famed knowledge-humanizer, significantly observes that "the word 'mind' was originally a verb, not a noun." That is, actions are older than words. Sunlight as curative, one finds elsewhere, has been used by Chinese, Egyptians, South American Indians...