Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another fine thing about 321 is some of its photography. Granted, most of its pictures need a little more light on the subject, but there are a few very excellent ones--the sunlight streaming down on the heads of tutors dining in Eliot, many of the snatches of Harvard drama, and a few terrific outing shots. There is, of course, page after page of dull photography--of boys gazing blankly at books, of people merely standing around, of more boys gazing at books. These perhaps represent the tedium which the editors of 321 seem to find most characteristic of Harvard...
...Sunlight TV Tube. Conventional TV pictures tend to fade out when the light in the room gets too bright. This is because the glowing substance (phosphor) on the face of the picture tube is a reflective powder. In sunlight or other strong light, the reflection gets brighter than the picture and washes the picture...
...head grows bigger, some of the fine material is blown out of it by the pressure of sunlight, which has more effect than gravitation on particles of proper size. This fine material forms the tail, which always points away from the sun no matter how the head is moving. It may become many millions of miles long. The light from the head and tail is partly reflected sunlight; the rest of it comes from atoms or molecules made to fluoresce by solar radiation...
...important new technique will be to observe the comet's tail with radio telescopes. If it is really full of peculiar chemical fragments (free radicals), as astronomers suspect, the fragments should be excited by sunlight and made to broadcast on characteristic wave lengths. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has turned its 50-ft. radio disk on the comet in the hope of detecting waves from hydroxl (OH) radicals. If astronomers find this odd stuff in comets, they may be able to trace it back into interstellar space. This may lead them, in turn, to new knowledge about what...
Shining in the sunlight that flooded the nave towered the figure that dominated the occasion (opposite). Gentle and merciful, yet awesome in its serene majesty, the figure stands 16 ft. tall, high above the floor of the nave, resting against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful...