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...column Nancy acknowledged the contribution, but added: "We cannot build the tower-it is too great an enterprise. What should I do with the dollar?" For answer, in her next day's mail she got more money. A contributor calling himself "Sunset Hunter" suggested penny banks to catch odd coins for the tower. Readers began to drop their pennies, nickels, dimes into old pitchers and broken cups to save them for Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Meteors falling at the rate of 400 a minute for an hour and a half may be visible in the western sky some time between sunset and midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIREWORKS PROMISED TONIGHT IS METEORS BEHAVE PROPERLY | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...sundown last week, Kol Nidre, the mournful prayer-hymn in which good Jews ask God to release them from unfulfilled vows, throbbed in countless synagogues. It was the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement dedicated to fasting and turning toward God. At Yom Kippur's sunset, a blast on the shofar (ram's horn) brought to a close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last day of Cowes Week, Vanderbilt and his Vim were awarded the International Challenge Cup, No. 1 trophy of England's No. 1 regatta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vim and Tomahawk | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Kellogg's The Circle, NBC. Substitute, starting July 16: Sunset Symphony, sustaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vacationers | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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