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...only flying saucers which Menzel's theory does not explain are the green fireballs that have been reported with extraordinary frequency in the Southwest. But Menzel does not take them very seriously. In clear-aired New Mexico and Arizona, he says, meteors are seen oftener than in cloudier places. According to Menzel's colleague, Meteor Expert Fred Whipple, they often look green because of vaporized magnesium from their stony material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Next Step? The issue was big enough, and cloudy enough, to set five justices to writing separate opinions. It was even cloudier when the A.P. got through reporting it (the A.P. usually manages to be least intelligible when describing its own adversities). While other A.P. members puzzled over their next step, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick galloped up with a plan. Said Colonel McCormick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The A.P. in Court | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...iron-grey, stooped General Giraud's own account, he had done all these things. As if there weren't enough mystery already, Giraud's status grew even cloudier after he crossed into Vichyfrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: L'Affaire Giraud | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...adequate blood. They had seen the Irishman's left hand flicker in the face of the assaulting one; they had seen him, in the sixth round, swing his right hand twice to Berlenbach's jaw, at which the latter sank to his knees, his cloudy face even cloudier. A bell had rung then, and Burly Berlenbach got to his corner and the smelling salts. But, after that, McTigue seemed very tired. His debonair red trunks were soggy and dark with sweat. Still he retreated, always faster than Berlenbach, ducking, rocking, pulling away. His right hand, broken long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Berlenbach vs. McTigue | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...cloudy face even cloudier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 8, 1925 | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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