Word: sunning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusual manner in which it was found to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. The exploring party traveled up the Yukon until it reached the Porcupine river, a tributary extending almost due north from the Yukon. Inasmuch as there was practically no night at this stage of the journey, the sun being up 22 hours a day, the party continued on their way without a stop for 160 miles up the Porcupine. Although they were well within the Arctic circle, the temperature was about 98 degrees for 22 hours out of the 24. After a 40-mile trip over land...
Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...
Additional Christian Cabinet Ministers are: C. T. Wang (Foreign Affairs), T. V. Soong (Finance), Chung Hui (Justice) and Sun Fo (Railways) son of the late founder of the Nationalist Party great Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...Cold Moon. One late afternoon when the Moon was early up, astronomers at Mt. Wilson observatory focused their 100-inch telescope on her and with a thermocouple found her heat, absorbed from the sun, to be 159° F. ( Water boils on earth at 212° F.) 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...
Miss Draper's grandfather was Charles A. Dana, famed editor and publisher of the New York Sun. Her parents, her father especially, was too correct and well-settled in social Philadelphia to approve of her eccentric plans to go upon the stage. But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses. She has never played to an audience that disliked her; and she has played in the six or seven languages which she speaks. She detests publicity and does not, in her quiet demeanor, display traces of the exhibitionism which inspires all acting...