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...looks redder at sundown than at noon because its light traverses a thicker layer of air at evening and is scattered by more particles in the atmosphere. The light lost by scattering reappears as the blue of the sky. It exactly compensates for the redness of direct sunlight...
...must forever remain invisible and untouchable." Yet from the indirect evidence of earthquakes, volcanoes, mines, oil wells, igneous rocks on the weathered surface it was possible for Professor Reginald Aid-worth Daly (Harvard) to estimate the Earth's outer crust as 40 mi. thick in continental areas (thicker under seas); the next shell 1,800 mi. thick, composed of glassy rock more rigid than steel; the core a ball of molten iron 7,000 mi. in diameter, under 15 to 50 million pounds pressure per square inch...
...type dress, the conservative Times had studied a report on the legibility of printing made six years ago by the Medical Research Council. With this ophthalmic advice in mind, the Times had also tried "to please the reader's eye." Result was a type which is thicker than the old in the main-stems and curves of the letters, has more refined junction strokes. The new type is called "Times New Roman." To harmonize with it was designed a new series of head fonts ("founts" to the Times') called "Modern Oldface." In appearance the paper's type...
Eliot believes that wherever a man may write poetry in English he will eventually become sought after and well-read in all English speaking countries. "Interesting poets are pretty fairly well distributed between America and England," he continued as the library became thicker with the aroma of English tobacco. When asked whether or not he noted anything of especial interest now that he is back in Cambridge, the poet, who is an English subject, replied, "People make interest and I haven't had the chance to meet anyone since my return...
...been stolen from his boat with a pair of canvas shoes and a knife. At just that time he had passed a boat with Penguin painted on its stern. Seeking other Penguins, Prosecutor Blue learned that there are at least ten of them in the waters around New York. Thicker grew the Mystery of Long Island Sound...