Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Physical Society Convention in Seattle last week, Dr. Marcel Schein of the University of Chicago had news to make even a sensation-jaded physicist draw a sharp breath. Last winter, he reported, he and his assistants tied a pack of photographic plates to a balloon, sent them up to 100,000 ft. over Texas to be exposed to the powerful primary cosmic rays that bombard the top of the atmosphere. Later, studying the plates in the laboratory, Dr. Schein got more and more excited as he followed a peculiar ray track through the pack. The track was a bundle...
firm's own balloon-tired "Roadmasters." Raleigh Industries, Ltd., which has an assembly plant in Boston, this spring started to supply all the lightweight bikes for Huffman Manufacturing Co. of Dayton, Ohio ("Huffy"). B.S.A. Cycles...
...took only a short while for Colley and everybody on the floor to begin disliking him intensely. One thing that irked them most was his "masquerading as a veteran." Says Joseph Blundon '49, "We were all veterans and his pretending to be one went over like a lead balloon...
Some newsmen viewed Nixon's statement on Indo-China as a "trial balloon," but others persuasively pointed out that he made the statements in reply to a question put to him by one of the editors, rather than in his prepared speech. They also argued that if it actually was a "trial balloon," it was floated in such a clumsy fashion that Nixon's cautious statement was confused in the uproar over who made it. Whatever Nixon's reasons, he successfully proved that it is impossible to speak before an audience of 600 and keep the speech...
...high jinks rather slow down, too. But while Shirley is dancing a clog and singing In the Good Old Summertime against Composer Schwartz's Coney Island Boat, or while she is riding with Wilbur Evans through the Tunnel of Love, or going up in a Fourth of July balloon, it is all very festive. And when Mae Barnes lets go with Happy Habit, or sparks the second act with Hang Up, it is all very fine. Arthur Schwartz's score is pleasant; there are some lively Tamiris dances and attractive Mielziner sets. The show needs more boardwalk...