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...shaft of sunlight caught Vag full on the face as he spun to avoid the last tackler, and there he was, flat on his back in bed clutching the tight-packed pillow...
Under the clean autumn sunlight, the land burgeoned with plenty. The second largest corn crop in history drowsed on the fields of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Other crops were short of alltime records, but bountiful beyond the dreams of the farmers of other lands...
...escort of motorcycle police guided the cortege of 22 black limousines to the cemetery. In the bright noon sunlight, dappling through Japanese plum trees, the casket was placed on a grassy knoll before the marble-columned mausoleum where Hearst's parents lie. Bishop Block read a poem, The Song of the River, which W.R. himself had written for his papers...
Impressionist Steer's England is a frankly scenic place with rolling hills, verdant valleys, billowing clouds. At their best, his canvases, like those of Turner and Constable, give new life to familiar prospects, his watercolors catch fleeting tricks of sunlight and shadow with a few decisive strokes...
...three minutes a year, when the sun was in total eclipse. Not until 1930, when French Astronomer Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph, did anyone succeed in imitating the natural event. Astronomer Lyot put a small brass disk between the lenses of a simple telescope, cutting off direct sunlight and permitting him to focus the dim radiance of the corona and solar prominences upon a sheet of photographic film. It was a simple enough trick, but one that could not be carried off without superfine lenses, free of any imperfections and kept scrupulously clean. Even the scattered light from...