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Gentlemen, our time is come. The mists of four years have passed away and we stand in the clear sunlight of the last hour. Soon Harvard will be but the tavern where once a pleasant night was spent in a long journey. The world that lies before us is big with ruin for it has been the drill ground of feet of clay. On our horizon there is thunder as well as dawn. But the past day has been fair...
...moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow is black.f But when the ball of the earth gets between sun and moon, as last week, sunlight niters through the fringe of the earth's atmosphere and is refracted into the shadow which the earth throws upon the eclipsed moon. Red predominates in that refracted light, because red most easily gets through our air. That, also, is why sunsets are ruddy...
...zoning law has influenced the direction of modern architecture. By making set-backs from the street at certain heights in crowded districts of the city in order to provide air and sunlight in the streets and for smaller buildings, a new shape has been imposed upon architects. But even with this restriction, the space left cannot be completely utilized since the pile must continue to taper to satisfy the eye. The American Radiator Building which is built of black brick rises to a height of 200 feet where a gilded tower, illuminated at night, seems to float in a hazy...
...light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected by an underground level. A theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof garden are novel features of the construction, which is now going on between Fifth and Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Streets. Photographs show excavation...
...decade the Old Guard reeled over the continent carving out new thrones. The long shadow of Napoleon fell across the world and brought fear into the hearts of kings. Austrians stacked their guns before him in the slanting summer sunlight at Austerlitz, Prussians furled their flag at Auerstadt, and in Poland one found a camp and not a forum. Then, in an odd lull, the Bearskins marched out of central Europe into the Beresina ice fields and the world learned that the Emperor was mortal...