Word: aurora
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...many years astronomers have been pretty certain that the Aurora Borealis is caused by something, presumably hydrogen, that is shot out of sunspots. For one thing, bright auroras generally appear about 15 hours after a sunspot has moved to a point on the sun directly opposite the earth. But proof was lacking; even the brightest auroras were too faint and diffuse to be studied spectrographically by existing instruments. Last week the proof was in hand: a few smudged bands on two photographic plates...
...wings of the zephyrs-and just enough sunshine to reflect a sparkle in the eyes of beautiful women-and just enough people . . . on the pave to make one continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other daily, six Saturday and five Sunday newspapers, all serving a population of 400,000.* Moses Y. Beach...
...theaters busy at once, had driven critics close to poetry themselves to do him credit. After seeing The Lady's Not For Burning, with which Actor-Manager John Gielgud introduced Fry to the public last spring, the Sunday Times's Harold Hobson wrote: "[It seemed] that the aurora borealis had turned humorist. Mr. Fry jests with Stardust, and is witty in iambics . . . He is a master jeweler...
Quackenbush has played end for two years for Coach Herman Hickman. Wearing number 87, the 19-year-old, six foot, one inch junior was used one both offense and defense this year, mostly on defense. At West Aurora (Illinois) High School he was named All-State halfback...
...Sleeping Beauty, the Met's huge stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot...