Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be about 100 million miles in diameter. Though it has some of the spectral characteristics of a nova, a star that suddenly flares up, the X-ray-emitting envelope of gas surrounding it is apparently not expanding. This leads Giacconi to speculate that ScoX-1 may be a cloud of gas condensing into an infant star, or an existing stellar system surrounded by a gas cloud. "Or," he says, "we may be looking at an entirely new type of celestial object...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A crippling auto accident, which ended Welch's studies as a promising painter, launched a writing career that comes to flower in this terrible memoir of the in valid years that ended in death...
...weighed in at an impractical, beam-breaking 3,000 Ibs. The doctors did not give up, though, and lightweight improvements on their design, manufactured by the Scott Paper Co., now fit standard hospital beds. The hollowed-out, foam-rubber mattresses have inserted plastic sacs that fit patients like a cloud and allow their weight to be distributed so uniformly over the supporting surface that they would not even break eggs...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A man who learned to love life only when he had to leave it, Welch recounted with brilliance the motor accident that crippled him and the convalescence that ended with his death...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A man who learned to love life only when he had to leave it, Welch recounted with brilliance and precision the tragic motor accident that crippled him and the painful convalescence that only ended with his death...