Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magnetic Chimney. The more powerful particles have their scientific uses, but they travel so fast that they pay scant attention to most forces acting upon them. Others are so easily influenced that the earth's magnetic field curves them away from their course and out into space again. The only place where the weak particles can reach the atmosphere unhampered is above the magnetic poles...
Neher's party launched balloons that counted the particles at 95,000 feet as they plunged down the polar "chimney." The same thing had been done before, in 1951, without notable findings. On this occasion, the scientists found in the chimney no particles with energy so low that it would not carry them safely through the stronger parts of the earth's field...
...they had not hit the magnetic chimney, they would never have been caught by balloon-borne instruments...
...when the sun was active. Last summer the sun was in a quiet mood. The clouds in space had dissipated, allowing the weak particles to approach the earth. Most of them were chased away by the earth's magnetic field, but a few hit the magnetic chimney and reached a close-in altitude where the scientist's instruments could catch and count them...
...species of old bottle was put on permanent display in an American glassmaking exhibit of the New York Historical Society. Its embossed inscription: "E. C. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey." With a new spot in the public's eye, the cabin-shaped vessel, its neck resembling a chimney, was likely to further the popular misconception that E.C.'s surname spawned the most common synonym for strong spirits...