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...sunlight to us in this winter...
Switzerland. In a hotel in Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner...
...other males; nor could Esther bear to confront men. When she was 14 she tried to seduce a boy; after that she kept her passion to herself. She had money, read romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house, in the mountains of West Wales. Soon after came the great love, Lew Gower, too sea-bottom low a cad even to recognize his own evil. Lew flattered her and slept with her until he got all her money...
Physically, the U. S. that emerges from FORTUNE's pages is no land to be de pressed about. To generally known superlatives about U. S. resources, the leading article, The U. S. A., contributes new ones: the amount of sunlight that falls on the different regions of the country; the potential mineral energy stored in the mountains of Wyoming and North Da kota; the potential water power that thunders down the rivers of the North west. Winding up ten years of fact-finding, FORTUNE's editors came out with: "Almost all the serious problems that now confront...
Boston had one of its most spectacular sunlight displays in years Saturday morning when weather conditions created a layer of snow crystals at a height of one or two miles, reflecting and refracting the sun's rays into a complex combination of ares, halos, and sundogs...