Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eaves in the mud. A Christian Brothers school toppled into the Nicolet River. A hole 40 ft. deep and 1,000 ft. long suddenly opened in the ground, swallowing an apartment house, three private homes and a service station. Small fires and explosions broke out and a cloud of smoke and dust rose hundreds of feet into the air over Nicolet...
...Stars. Drs. Greenstein and Fowler, backed by a group of British cosmologists, believe that the universe was formed gradually out of a cloud of plain hydrogen over billions of years. Old stars that condensed first from the cosmic cloud were made entirely of hydrogen; there was nothing else to be made of. As nuclear reactions took place inside them, they turned partly into helium by fusion processes similar to those that generate the energy of hydrogen bombs. They also cooked up middleweight elements such as carbon and oxygen...
Since many stars shoot part of their material back into space, the elements produced in the oldest stars became mixed in the general cloud of hydrogen. Therefore new stars that formed out of the cloud started with a different, more varied composition. The nuclear reactions inside them were different, too. They built up heavier elements and shot part of their product back into the cloud...
...Spain's ignominious defeat in Cuba, José Ortega y Gasset decided that the circumstances of Spanish life demanded drastic overhaul. For 300 years, he wrote, Spain had been sinking into a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . Today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history...
From the observatory perched on nearby Sacramento Peak, Dr. Edward Manring of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center followed the sodium cloud all night. The light affected sensitive instruments so strongly that it drove them off-scale. It will be at least a month before Air Force scientists can analyze their data and decide what the experiment has taught them. If the results are promising, many other sodium rockets may be shot into...