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MOTORING:: BY LAND, SEA, and SKY; Night Noises Again

... MOTORING BY LAND, SEA, and SKY I Night Noises Again The Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has issued the anticipated official warning to motor owners upon the subject of night noises. I do not know whether it is to be taken as a threat; nor ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1623 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

SHELL

... e soaring to a thousand degrees Centigrade and the flames shooting high above the snub snout of the kiln, lighting the sky at night. The glowing red-hot pots must then be left a further four days to cool before they can be drawn from the kilns and handled ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 434 | Page: 59 | Tags: Photographs 

DOES THE EARTH REVOLVE ON ITS AXIS?

... The earth spins uniformly and re gularly from west to east, as may be inferred from the uniform rotation of the starry sky at night. This was proved by the experi ment made by Foucault. He showed that a long pendulum when once set swinging changed the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 441 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

FORECASTING THE WEATHER

... Red Sky at Night if it be low down and rosy means fair weather Indian red all over the sky means rain Over^clear Definition is a sure sign of too much vapour in the atmosphere and presages wind and rain Squally Weather Ahead: 7 his type of sky does not ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

SHELL

... soar ing to a thousand degrees centigrade and the flames shooting high above the snub snout of the kiln, lighting the sky at night. The glowing red hot pots must then be left a further four days to cool before they can be drawn from the kilns and handled ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 466 | Page: 2 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAGIC of FUSED QUARTZ

... Mr. Bert Gann Mr. Gann, late of Hollywood, known for his brilliant film photography, can take night pictures in the day-time, and film the sky at night by an arrangement of the lens of his camera, a discovery which will revolutionise certain films. ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAGIC of FUSED QUARTZ

... Mr. Bert Gann Mr. Gann, late of Hollywood, known for his brilliant film photography, can take night pictures in the day-time, and film the sky at night by an arrangement of the lens of his camera, a discovery which will revolutionise certain films. ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Paris Diary

... differences of I opinion about the weather. One evening they said it would not rain. I admit that the sunset was red Red sky at night, shep- herd's delight but it did rain all the same I cursed and fid- faddled around with basins and towels and pails. Ten ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 847 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

STUDYING THE HEAVENS FROM HERSTMONCEUX

... HAROLD SPENCER JONES, F.R.S. (The Astronomer Royal) THE smoky, polluted atmos phere of a large city and the glare in the sky at night from artificial lights are great handicaps to astronomical observation. The smog, to use the expressive American word ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1322 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

... (and London is the world in winter-time except for those strangely constructed individuals who prefer a grey sea, a black sky, and night at four p.m.) 110 other entertainment is so completely right and opportune as the Grand Extra Mammoth Hardy Annual panto ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 939 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CHILDREN'S FAVOURITE GUEST

... for instance, to have inherited some of the attributes of the heathen god Woden, particularly that of driving through the sky at night. Some of the festivals with which we surround him are certainly derived from old pagan customs, when, at the beginning ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1189 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

CHANGES ON CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF COURSES

... that it was about a record for a short hole. The sand patches round about here on that green links are like stars in the sky of night, but not so comforting. The main part of the sentiment, however, comes from the fact that though not an old hole, as holes ...