Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helium nucleus of four protons is clumsy chain-shot for atomic bombardment. Drs. Tuve, Hafstad & Dahl now surpass radium by shooting single protons from their gun. By means of a cloud chamber they are now able to see and photograph the stream of protons from their machine. The effect looks like a stubby shaving brush with bristles 1.6 in. long. Each bristle is the path made by a proton only one 10,000th of null millionth of an inch in diameter...
...archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt for turquoise and jade ornaments...
Other bone mementos in the tomb of the Cloud warriors were "carved with a technique not surpassed by fine Chinese work on ivory," the carvings depicting events of history and details of ritual...
Best find in the tomb was a gold mask, four inches high, representing terrific Xipetotec,* the Cloud People's god of vegetation, gold, silver and grief. For Xipetotec's pleasure one of his priests would dance in a skin freshly flayed from a dazzling, dazzled woman...
Federal troops last week protected Monte Alban from marauders. That, however, did not deter the treasure hunters. There are tunnels through the territory which the Cloud People once ruled. The tunnels, some of them 30 miles long, connected old cities, many of them vanished. A few of the tunnels