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...back and would share greater vistas with you. Hidden under cloth of monotonous hue, your once-broad searching has hurried along the dictated path, looking neither to right nor left. The stern discipline imposed on your inquiring soul must have made insensitive dreams of clouds lolling in luxurious sunlight, resilient grasses, paternal elms and walls of mellow brick. You needed peace, and us, and we needed you, while we were stumbling upon the rocky path...
...century ago this month, a London engraver's daughter named Kate Greenaway opened her eyes on the world. She soon found it good. Her adult life was a grey, lonely history of work, but she never quite lost the sunlight that filled her head when she was small. Wrote she at 50: "You can go into a beautiful new country if you stand under a large apple tree and look up to the blue sky through the white flowers. . . . I suppose I went to it very young before I could really remember and that is why I have such...
...made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
...down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory diseases increase during foggy weather. But, as a Smoke Abatement spokesman unequivocally stated: "The most injurious effect of fog is more subtle-in obstructing sunlight and daylight...
...building machinery. Dr. Harden used his laboratory as a factory and tried every short cut he could think of. First step was pouring a solution of uranium salt and other chemicals into a battery of wooden washtubs on the roof. There the photochemical action of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight (on cloudy days, sun lamps) converted the transparent liquid into green, powdery potassium uranium fluoride. The second step: melting this secondary uranium salt in graphite cups for electrolytic separation of the pure metal. The electrodes were raised and lowered by automobile jacks. The final step was simple melting and casting...