Word: reflectively
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...pale full moon turned rufous early one morning last week. The earth had eclipsed it. The moon and earth have no light of their own. Both reflect light from the sun. The moon looks yellow because it has no atmosphere to screen the sun's rays and hide its general brownness.- (The earth's atmosphere makes the earth shine blue and 40 times more brightly than the moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow...
Seldom do we have the opportunity of seeing, as in the present display of the Dreyfus Collection, a selection of great works of art that reflect so completely the age that produced them. No less important than the Renaissance Humanists' discovery of classical antiquity was their discovery of man. In no other period was there such a vital interest in the phenomenon of the human personality, and so it is not surprising to find that the Italian sculptors represented in the Fogg Museum have mirrored the multiple facets of that interest in their works. The arrogance and strength...
...announcing the death of his colleague, Georgia's Congressman Crisp observed with some alarm: "It is my honest belief that he was a victim of the strain under which we have been trying to work these last several weeks. . . . Let us reflect and relax some and not kill ourselves...
Miss Cowl called her play Smilin' Through, and there are those who still feel a sympathetic tear in their eye when they reflect on how dulcet was Miss Cowl in her dual role of both heroines, how pleasant was the treacly little theme song of that piece...
...verse. He has written also many other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect, has not a mathematician much nearer home erected for himself a wonderland of equal whimsy; and has he not also his new belfry...