Word: partialed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stars will be visible. The faint corona will appear to extend about four solar diameters from the sun's edge, and reddish prominence of glowing hydrogen gas will occasionally bubble up around the moon. Ground temperatures may drop ten or 15 degrees, and even in Cambridge, the partial eclipse may cause a drop of a degree or two. Greenhouse flowers may lose their petals. Some birds will fly around disoriented, while others will begin to roost...
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...
...Bippies charged that "establishment astronomers" were calling last night's plague a partial lunar eclipse to prevent a nationwide panic...
Students at the Graduate School of Design decided yesterday to organize a partial tuition boycott and pledged over $1000 to help pay the salary of Chester W. Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, whose appointment will expire this June...
...Senator, known as a champion of conservation, escape at least partial responsibility for the pollution of Prestile Stream, which runs past Vahlsing's plant across the Canadian border. When the backers of the refinery project requested that the stream be reclassified for industrial use, Muskie approved the downgrading as a temporary measure. As a result, Vahlsing's potato plant was allowed to continue to discharge more waste into the once-pure trout stream...