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...Planes can land safely on the inland ice so long as bright sunlight makes ripple-shadows on the surface. But on hazy days pilots must beware, as ice and sky merge, leaving no horizon...
...simplicity of University Hall's granite front is an innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch. In the middle of the last century this basement was the College Commons, and here a caterer served meals at $2 a week, a practice which gave the cellar the name of "Starvation Hollow." Parenthetically one might say here that the motivation...
...Spanish Republican disapproval came from Rome. One Demetrio Solamon, Egyptian-born and successively naturalized Greek and Spanish, took a train from Madrid to Rome, marched into St. Peter's last week with an old valise, checked it at the central gate, then wandered out into the bright sunlight of St. Peter's Square. Some time later a Fascist militia officer wandered idly about the swarthy man standing near the great obelisk with his fingers in his ears. Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into...
...looks redder at sundown than at noon because its light traverses a thicker layer of air at evening and is scattered by more particles in the atmosphere. The light lost by scattering reappears as the blue of the sky. It exactly compensates for the redness of direct sunlight...
From the 12th Street entrance a brilliant Avenue of Flags sweeps the visitor down to a great U-shaped Hall of Science, heart of the Fair. Like other Fair buildings it is long, low, ultramodern, brilliantly painted-blocked and banded in orange, red. yellow, white. It is windowless, because sunlight is variable, electricity constant, and because windows are too expensive for buildings which will start coming down when the last sightseer leaves...