Word: sunsetting
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Only thing Nebraska had ever seen to rival Mrs. Joslyn's gift was a prairie sunset. But the Memorial's art had nearly all been bought in that happy era when money was good and taste was bad. Typical of its contents: a large, lush Bouguereau, Bonheur's Cattle and Landscape, a collection of Egyptian antiquities. Little of the $1,700,000 endowment Mrs. Joslyn gave it was spent on accessions...
About an hour after sunset one will be able to see five planets, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury, in the southwestern sky. It may be hard, however, to distinguish between the smaller planets and the nearby stars...
Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 29, I read on p. 19, . . ."The flags on the Capitol dropped to half-staff in the floodlit night." Are not all U. S. flags hauled down at sunset? D. C. ESTABROOK Midland, Mich...
...Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
...spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...