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When the sun comes out during a shower, the drops of rain deflect the sun's rays and split them up into their seven spectral colors. There is no physical reason why a rainbow should not be seen when the moon shines, but such rainbows have been rarely described. Last week, Professor Armin Kohl Lobeck of Columbia University, urged by his scientific friends, modestly but firmly described a rainbow which he saw on the night of June 16, while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moon Rainbow | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Students will usher food through every step from field to table, learn to sweep floors, write advertisements, calculate profit & loss. They will study also the science of food: what makes bread rise, what makes beer. When they go to school each morning, students will first take a shower, then don white uniforms. The food they carve, bake and cook will be dished up to them and their teachers for lunch in the cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Food School | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...used to be a wrestler at the University of Virginia, played the first 36 holes in 172 strokes, 170 minutes. By noon he had collected a gallery of 500 and scores of 90, 82, 82, 82. Then Providence sent a rainstorm. Fortified by sandwiches & coffee and refreshed by a shower during his 97-minute rest, Golfer Ferebee continued his jaunt, followed by a dozen reporters, photographers and, toward late afternoon, half of La Salle Street (including Partner Tuerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stroke a Minute | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Less fortunate were a trio of Italian alpinists who were killed last week when a shower of rocks released by a lightning bolt swept them, off a &650-ft. cliff on the south wall of Mt. Marmolata in the Dolomites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Subdued Ogre | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Interior plans call for three levels, two for squash courts and the top for a basketball floor and exercise room. The lower levels will be divided by corridors running through the center of the building, with doorways to the courts. Lockers and shower baths are on the first and second levels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Gym Will be Finished in October to Replace Hemenway | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

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