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...great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes and the Harvard observatories, will be in the region of partial but not of complete eclipse...
...main things that scientists hope to learn from lay observations are the exact borders of the totality belt and the times of the arriving of the total shadow and its departure, to the nearest second. These will help to improve knowledge as to the exact path of the moon...
...middle of the yellow arena, with a blue arch of sky above, dressed in black and scarlet, stood a slim ama- teur matador. The bull charged. That matador took a single deliberate step aside. The bull hammered past. Into his path again stepped the matador. He danced, he mocked, he swung his scarlet cloak. But this bull was a thief, as they say; he "knew Latin." Drumming hoofs, a broken shout, a thud. "Maria. He is dead!" gasped the onlookers. So ended the last bullfight of Ignacio Zuloaga*, famed Spanish painter...
When Samuel Gompers set out for Mexico City (TIME, Dec. 1), he went to his death. But his way thither was a path of triumph. He, with honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, entrained for the 50-hour journey from El Paso, Tex., under military escort. At Mexico City, he and his fellows from the A. F. L. attended the Convention of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. In his capacity as President, he presided. He also attended the inauguration of President Calles, who piled honors upon him. Yet his honors came at a price...
...Since the eclipse will not be total in Cambridge," he continued, "we are cooperating with the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, which lies in the path of the total eclipse. Two of us expect to go there, while Professor Shapley will travel to an observatory in the western part of the state or in eastern New York...