Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the roof of the CRIMSON building the sun looked like a new moon. At breakfast tables and on the way to examinations a frequent comment was to the effect that the phenomenon was "not half as effective as any moonlight night...
...through. Starch left in the dark underwent no dissolution; exposed to sunlight, it disintegrated slowly; exposed to polarized light, rapidly. The reaction to the rays by starch in living plants was identical. Seeds in the dark grew not at all; seeds in the sunlight grew slowly; seeds in the moonlight grew quickly...
...path of its going, dropped behind like milestones-Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington; then colored country again, woods and fields, the brave and opulent lands of proud Virginia. All day it flew south through the shining levels of the air, and south still after the sun had gone down and the moonlight poured on its silver sides, dimming the lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within...
...great ash tree smelling of fairies and moonlight...
...course in 24 min., 51 sec. (TIME, Aug. 11). There was Rudolph Supan, of Cleveland, with his eight caddies and spare shoes, who ran between shots and played 257 holes in one day (TIME, July 16, 1923). There was Nicholas Morris of San Antonio, Tex., who teed off by moonlight, played 290 holes to beat Rudolph's record (TIME...