Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onetime B.F. Goodrich research vice president who retired to work on his own in 1925, at one time or another held 40 patents, among them the first successful aircraft deicer, thick strips of pulsating rubber that fitted over the leading edge of the wings and shook off storm-cloud ice as quickly as it formed, a device that after 30 years is still used on many prop-driven aircraft, but not on the big jets; after a long illness; in Ithaca...
...world, and whale-watching gave way to more active pursuits. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Tokyo came into its own. It assumed the status of seat of government, as well as its new name, which means simply Eastern Capital. It has dwelt for nearly two decades beneath a cloud of dust that hid its expansion-a trebling growth that took the city's 3,500,000 population at war's end to a current 10.6 million. In the process Japan became the world's fifth largest and Asia's only industrial power. Five years...
...huskies . . ."). To Flowerday, putting the Ranger back in the saddle is a particular labor of love: it was he who used to clomp a pair of rubber plumber's friends in a box of gravel at Detroit's Station WXYZ whenever Silver galloped off in a cloud of dust. For radio listeners surfeited with news and music and music and news, Shadow, Ranger and Hornet are a welcome relief from the prevailing tedium of the medium. Nor does one need a 21-in. screen to visualize Margo Lane as she weathers perils that make Pauline's seem...
...audience-participation devices ranging from a simple prism that refracts light rays to a 350-ton Baldwin locomotive that moves up and down a track. Boston's "science smorgasbord," as Director Henry Bradford Washburn calls it, includes a bucket pendulum that dribbles sand in harmonic patterns, a working cloud chamber, and a reproduction of a ship's bridge equipped with radar, sonar, gyroscopes, steering mechanism and a view of the Charles River...
...Stars. Where Tiros was aimed uselessly out into space much of the time, Nimbus forever focuses earthward - the result of infra-red controls, which utilize warmth radiated from the earth to keep Nimbus pointed in the right direction. This alone means four to five times more cloud cover photographs. Nimbus' size (830 lbs.) is its greatest advantage, allowing room for a set of daylight cameras that take photos five times clearer than Tiros' best cameras took, and enough batteries on board to supply transmitters with 450 watts of power v. 20 watts for Tiros...