Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...
...much worried about the loss of such a prodigious volume of expert copy as he was deeply and genuinely moved by the death of an old friend, Arthur Brisbane's boss personally filled the "Today" space day after Christmas...
...Arthur Brisbane ... but all that I can think of for the moment is that I have lost my friend. ... I grieve for that and realize the loss. ... I grieve inconsolably . . . that the world in which I must spend my few remaining years will hold for me a blank space...
...journalistic giant who inspired such awe began his newspaper life early. Son of a well-to-do parlor radical, Albert Brisbane of Buffalo, who paid for space to run a doctrinaire column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Arthur Brisbane was educated abroad, mostly by tutors, turned up on the old New York SMI in 1883, aged 19. At that time the SMI thought extraordinarilv well of itself, encouraged its young men to write long "literary" pieces. Thriving young Arthur Brisbane was made the Sun's London correspondent, wrote a famous account of the fight between John...
...minuteness of man. For a King Features symposium just before his death, Mr. Brisbane typically wrote: "The successful completion of the 200-inch telescopic reflector is the most important event of 1936. It will carry the sight and mind of science man at least one million light years into space, and that is a long distance.* ... I think mankind will plod along about as it has been doing, slowly, following some plan mapped out far away, and beyond our understanding. Man should find comfort in the fact that he has done pretty well...