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...moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element is called "coronium" for convenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipse | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness? Her train covers as much ground as the hall rug. The plot substance, by compensation, is minute. In this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...rays. Metals prevent passage of x-rays ordinarily used. A ring, on an x-ray photograph, is opaque, although the flesh of the finger is transparent. However, Professor George L. Clark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who established the first laboratory for applying x-rays to industry, showed the testers how he detected flaws in steel four-inches thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Testers' 25th | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...nothing earthly" save the ray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union of Three Muses Features Dedication of Fogg Art Museum | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

Some critics say 10%; others go as high as 75%. But last week one Ray Doll, Chicago junk dealer, went so far as to fire a shotgun when he saw an eye peeking and peering at him through a knothole in his garage. The shotgun shell sped straight, blew out the brains of one Robert Hailey, 15, Negro, who meant no harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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