Word: surround
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen when the moon's shadow fell upon Niuafou. He reported that the performance was only what he expected. When, however, his 112 photographs of the phenomenon were developed, Dr. Mitchell pronounced the expedition's success "unequaled in astronomical annals." Spectroscopic analyses of the incandescent gases which surround the sun showed a new wavelength which scientists had never known before. The visible spectrum ranges from 8,000 to 4,000 angstrom units.* Dr. Mitchell's wavelength was 6,770 angstrom units. The camera recorded what the astronomer's eyes had missed-disturbances in the corona...
...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...
...installed. Director Harlan True Stetson, onetime Harvard astronomer, watched the installation, summed up in his mind two problems he wants to solve with it: the causes of solar storms, which have a great effect upon terrestrial weather and radio reception; the cosmic clouds which he thinks may surround the earth and sun, may influence the intensity of solar radiation. Perkins Observatory was founded at Ohio Wesleyan University by one of its teachers of mathematics and astronomy, Hiram Mills Perkins. For 50 years, lie saved and invested his $1,800 salary. Before he died he turned back to the university...
General Salikh Pasha of Turkey, with horse, foot and artillery marched over the Persian frontier last week to surround the rebel Kurdish tribesmen who for the past two months have been holding out on the slopes of Mount Ararat against some 30,000 well-equipped Turkish troops (TIME, July 28). Persia protested the invasion formally, did nothing to stop...
...talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop at the end, like a dog-catcher's dog- catcher. When the snake finds itself cornered, it will make for the water. The captors will slip their loops over the beast...