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...belly of the sun last week erupted in an acne of sunspots, a chain of splotches 160,000 miles long. This was the strongest sunspot activity since the sun entered a new cycle two years ago (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933), started climbing irregularly toward the intensity peaks due in 1938. Vortices of cooling gas on the solar surface, sunspots in their times of vigor have been associated by scientists with magnetic disturbances on Earth and poor radio reception...
...would not publish the book), is Cummings at his most untrammeled typical. Apoplectic or easily worried readers had best leave it alone; but bolder or more placid spirits will come to no harm, may even find some food for thought, amusement or admiration in No Thanks. Such an observable sunspot is Poem...
Strong quakes rocked three provinces of Argentina. In Buenos Aires Astronomer Martin Gil predicted violent upheavals within a week, a bad year for quakes in general, basing his prophecies on increase in sunspot activity...
Forthcoming from Dr. Charlotte Emma Moore, 35-year-old Princeton Observatory researcher already known for her spectroscopic measurement of sunspot temperatures, the identification followed a triangular cooperation. Dr. Moore took some especially clear laboratory spectra of phosphorus provided by Dr. Carl Clarence Keiss of the Bureau of Standards, compared them minutely with some very faint lines lately observed on the infra-red solar spectrum by Mount Wilson's Harold Delos Babcock, found that three lines coincided...
...eleven-year sunspot cycle was ushered in last autumn when Mount Wilson observers spotted two faint spots too far from the solar equator to be survivors of the old cycle, too small to have any effect on earth. Last week near the sun's eastern edge erupted a whirling blot 16,000 miles across. Astronomers predicted magnetic storms and poor radio reception during the twelve days before the sun's rotation wheeled it out of sight, thought it might grow big enough to be seen with the unaided eye through smoked glass...