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MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman-Harcourt, Brace ($2). (Published serially in Cottier's as Sunset Voyage.) Swift skulduggery on a Japanese freighter; several murders, spies, missing military plans, a blackmailer, runaway heiress and smart newspaper man. Better than average...
Solar radiation is the primary cause of ionization in this upper atmosphere, and changes in sun light caused by sunrise, sunset, sunspots, eclipses, or other phenomena, affect the blankets markedly. Harvard sent expeditions to New Hampshire in 1932 and to Russia in 1936 to study the effects of solar eclipse on the ionosphere...
...Hollywood, brought her classic profile to Columbia University today to find out why members of the senior class chose her as "the College man's ideal companion on a desert Island." She didn't find out. The boys served her tea, showed her the beauties of Morningside Heights at sunset, but refused blushingly to collaborate on the reasons they chose her, foremost of which in the poll was "her ability to speak French." Only 50 of Columbia's students were permitted to meet her David Periman, editor of the Columbia Spectator, selected them and made hundreds of enemies...
...unified volume of 394 pages covering his travels over 20 years. It is spattered with characteristic Dos Passos splashes of color, like his description of his first glimpse of Toledo: "Against the grey and ochrestreaked theatre of the Cigarrales were piled masses of buttressed wall that caught the orange sunset light on many tall plane surfaces rising into crenellations and square towers and domes and slatecapped spires. . . ." But in general it is laconic: "Here we are sitting on our tails again," he wrote, when the caravan was delayed by bandits. "This ibn Haremis gang is a rare one. . . . Such...
...best method, speaking from his own experience, was the requirement of classical education that only the best English be used in the translation of the classical languages. He characterized this statement by pointing out how ridiculous it was for Harvard students to write "silly little essays on the sunset over the Charles River...