Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thermometer can tell within half an hour after sunset how cold it will be by morning. It draws a running picture of the clouds that pass overhead, records breaks and thickenings. It also indicates upper-air humidity, precursor of cloud patches the next...
...tiny planet with three volcanoes and one rose, the contented prince watched the sunset 44 times in one day, tended his rose (served her breakfast, protected her from drafts). Tormented by the rose's awakened vanity, he departed, visited neighboring planets, talked with a king, businessman, lamplighter, geographer (each revealing his occupational foible), at last descended to earth...
Mind and Body. Years ago Wisconsin's stubby, pragmatic bon vivant, Philosopher Max Otto, stood on the bank of the upper Mississippi one Sunday sunset to ask himself again what force it was that prevented the technology of the modern world from being used to the greater happiness of the plain man. Afternoon darkened into evening ; the shining silver of the river blurred in the darkness; lights began to appear in the village...
From this point on The Outlaw scurries pell-mell toward the inevitable day when Billy and Rio ride off astride Red, the horse, into the phoniest Hollywood sunset yet photographed...
...units in the joint U.S.-Australian force under General Douglas MacArthur were the 32nd (Iron Jaw or Red Arrow) and 41st (Sunset) divisions, and the Fifth Air Force. General MacArthur cited them for skill and courage that "defeated a bold and aggressive enemy...