Word: halo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station will be equipped with a coronagraph, a new instrument for creating artificial solar eclipses and making possible regular observations of the corona, mysterious halo surrounding the sun, and also of other phenomena of the sun's atmosphere. This instrument is the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere...
...addressed did not respond; it persisted in motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school patriots who represent it as a struggle for a "better world...
Charles F. Brooks, director of the Meteorological Observatory, reported that from the University station on Blue Hill the observable phenomena included parhelic, a parhelic circle, a parhelion of 120 degrees, a circumzenithal are, an upper tangent are, and also the familiar 22 degree halo about...