Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time. I saw a quiz show and the contestant lost the jackpot because he hadn't read a book." "Who wants to read, Miss Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* ¶Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost 55? in 1949, 43?in 1950 and 36? in 1952, have hit a new low-32?. ¶Appointments of the week: Psychologist Nils Y. Wessell, 39. acting president of Tufts College...
...fact hung like an autumn storm cloud over Panmunjom last week. The Communist explainers would not give the 14,600 Chinese P.W.s another chance to humiliate them (TIME, Oct. 26). They insisted on talking to the 7,800 North Korean P.W.s, who wouldn't talk to them; the Communists hoped thereby that the onus might be shifted to the other side. All week the Indians urged the Communists to get on with questioning the now triumphant Chinese, who laughed in their compounds, "Where are the esteemed explainers? Do take us to see them." Meanwhile, all five members...
...Australia, rainmaking has enjoyed a better-regulated infancy. According to Welsh-born Dr. George Edward Bowen, a leader in the development of both radar and radio astronomy, Australia's carefully controlled program of "cloud physics" experiments has yielded clear and encouraging results...
Most of the Australian experiments backed by CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) have been done with Dry Ice sown from airplanes. Single clouds were seeded and the results watched by radar, which shows the formation of rain inside the cloud. A cloud-seeding was counted as successful only if rain came from the seeded cloud but not from adjacent clouds that were not seeded. When a cloud's temperature was below 19° F., the trick worked every time. Individual clouds dropped as much as ½ in. of rain that would not have fallen naturally...
Plenty of seedable clouds, says Dr. Bowen, drift over Australia without springing a leak. An area of some 1,000,000 sq. mi. to the west of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia is chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...