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ANNULAR and partial eclipses of the sun are not very interesting to scientists because the remaining two or three per cent of the ?? disc completely drowns out the coro?-a halo that is 500,000 times fain??er than the rest of the sun. It is possible to study the corona without an ??clips by using a coronagraph-a met?? disc held in front of telescope to create an artificial eclipse. However, interplanetary dust and sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere obliterate the corona's fine details...
...rabble, this canaille, These sans-culottes in shirtsleeves, sans, aussi, The least investiture of quality. Off the Long Island Rail Road cars they swarm With Morning Telegraph or Racing Form And A rmstrong's Scratch Sheet, pouring towards the gates Beside which other literature awaits As benefice, whose fain purveyors call In accents more than audible by all, "Jack's Little Green Card!", "docker Lawton!!", "Hey, Got that Daily Double again today!!!" Don't trust these men, no matter how sincere Solicitude may cause them to appear...
Similar displays were seen all over the U.S. Southwest. One meteor so illuminated the skies over New Mexico that it cast shadows on the ground. Astronomer Nathan Fain, at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory, called it a "historic shower," possibly greater than any in the past...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
...three madrigals were Thomas Morley's "Phyllis I fain would die now," Mein Schifflein lief in wilden Meer by Johann Schein, and the two-part madrigal Altri canti di Marte by Claudio Monteverdi. They were sung under the direction of Mr. Schmidt by the Chamber Chorus. The Chamber Chorus, which is made up of a small portion of the Summer School Chorus, produces an over-all sound which, while generally excellent, sometimes becomes a bit too rich and developed to permit the listener to savor the true flavor of this type of music. The actual interpretation of the music -- balancing...