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...While they were measuring, Earth passed between Sun and Moon, causing an eclipse. Moon's temperature dropped to 196° below Zero. Less than an hour later the lunar temperature was 155° F. Edison Pettit and Seth Barnes Nicholson, who reported this, estimated that when no sunlight reaches the Moon, her temperature falls to 459° below Zero...
Prisoners are not allowed to keep any personal effects. They are given rough underwear, "hickory" shirt, brogan shoes, socks, gray coat and pants (stripes are no longer used). Their cells, 7 ft. x 3 ft., 3 in. x 6 ft., 7 in., get no sunlight and contain only a cot, iron slop bucket, tin cup, electric bulb. Letter paper, books and newspapers can be obtained at the proper times...
...that of 1918. Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight, to eat well, to take to bed at the first signs of malaise. And statisticians were left to calculate the enormous resultant loss in productive power...
...Infante Don Alfonso, cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, said last week upon returning to Madrid from Manhattan: "I can make no suggestions to the indomitable people of New York, except that they might put a roof over their entire city, flood the streets with artificial sunlight, and install moving sidewalks...
...connection with the general furthering of physical exercise at the Dental School, arrangements have been made for students in poor health to rest in the sunlight during the noon hour on cots placed for that purpose on the roof of the School building...