Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artfully translated by Arthur Waley the first four parts of Lady Murasaki's 900-year-old Japanese masterpiece, Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
...spray. Their charge makes them coalesce again until they are large and heavy enough to hover for an instant, then begin to drop again. As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising air carries negative electricity to the top of the cloud. A lightning flash results...
...body to one negatively charged. The Earth's surface is negatively charged, the atmosphere positively. Whenever a lacy branching showed in photographs of the flash, Dr. Simpson has taken the direction the branches pointed as indicating the negative pole. But his theory has been that the top of the cloud is negative, the bottom positive...
...other hand, Dr. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927 Nobel Prizewinner with Arthur Holly Compton) has claimed that the top of the cloud is positive, the bottom negative, and Nebraska Wesleyan's Jensen last month backed him up in the Physical Review. Sitting at night in the window of a high campus building long-jawed, slow-spoken Professor Jensen has been taking photographs of lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with...
...lightning, is a fair place for it. Better is Tampa, Fla. which holds the U. S. record with 94 thunderstorms a year. Best is Baliburg in Cameroon, Africa with 200 a year. San Jose, Calif, has the U. S. minimum with one a year. Most lightning goes from cloud to cloud. What goes from cloud to ground kills about 50 people per year...