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Every clear, moonless February and March night in the Northern Hemisphere, just after evening twilight and before morning twilight, the sky is faintly illuminated above the sunside of the horizon.* That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light. Over the opposite side of the night horizon is another just perceptible glow rarely perceived called the Gegenschein, or counterglow. In the tropics the Zodiacal light appears every clear night, except when the moon outshines it. The light of the milky way blots out the Gegenschein during December, January, June and July. Other times it matches the Zodiacal light. Last week before...
...Evening twilight ends this week in the U. S. a little before 7:30 p. m. mean, or sun time. The difference between mean and standard times must be calculated for every community. Morning twilight begins this week in the U. S. just about s arn. mean time. †A man on the moon could of course see the round of the earth because the earth, like the dead moon, reflects the sun's light across the intervening mean distance of 238,857 miles. A man on the earth can see the earth's reflected shine...
...omnipotent Ebasco bought concessions from London's Whitehall Investment Co. to operate tramways and provide light and power for the Santiago-Valparaiso territory. Contract and concessions disappeared into a twilight world of lawyers, politicians and congressional committees. Last week, curiously emended, they reappeared on the desk of President Ibañez. Instead of being limited to city lights and trolleys, the contract is now designed to embrace practically all the light and power in the Republic of Chile...
Perhaps that unique "something" is comparable, in a way, with the classic calm of the near-by Charles River. And now I think I have hit upon it. Harvard somehow seems eternal. You wander through old Harvard Yard in the twilight, and the whispering trees seem to tell you that Harvard will survive forever, waiting in serene expectancy for youth to come and share its treasure of knowledge. You wander across the Oklahoma oval, and the thought crosses your mind that perhaps the next legislature will decide to cut off the university's finances and give the money...
...foggy twilight last week, New York radio stations suddenly stopped broadcasting and the air was filled with SOS calls. While radio listeners wondered what the silence might portend, there was administered in the outer reaches of New York Harbor what might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried...