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...South Sea island hotel run by a man named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent for her on every side. The sordid background Conrad had in his mind, a background in which, at the world's outposts, civilized formulas are stretched so thin that they become a satiric mirror for human behavior, has been changed into decorative and often admirable picture postcards. Best shot: Schomberg throwing the band leader downstairs...
Last week, tall, thin-thatched, efficient, good-natured President Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina sat in his office at Chapel Hill and pondered. He was not thinking about the university of which he has been the chief executive for ten years, but of a vast educational plant 650 miles away of which he had just accepted the presidency?the University of Illinois...
Every clear, moonless February and March night in the Northern Hemisphere, just after evening twilight and before morning twilight, the sky is faintly illuminated above the sunside of the horizon.* That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light. Over the opposite side of the night horizon is another just perceptible glow rarely perceived called the Gegenschein, or counterglow. In the tropics the Zodiacal light appears every clear night, except when the moon outshines it. The light of the milky way blots out the Gegenschein during December, January, June and July. Other times it matches the Zodiacal light. Last week before...
...towards the sun. It is in that direction 30,000 miles thick and appears as the Zodiacal light. From the opposite side of the earth where the cloud's resistance to sunlight pressure is less it is squeezed a million miles or more from earth into a thin taper. That is where the Gegenschein glows. Through that taper the earth's atmosphere very, very slowly escapes into universal chaos, a millionth part in a million years...
...dead moon, reflects the sun's light across the intervening mean distance of 238,857 miles. A man on the earth can see the earth's reflected shine on the moon when "the old moon is in the arms of the new," that is, just as the thin crescent of the first quarter moon becomes visible. That will next happen in the Northern Hemisphere March 7, at 11 p. m. Eastern Standard Time...