Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glenn L. Martin makes big airplanes at Baltimore. He also makes big statements to reporters. Last week he announced at the Wings Club, Manhattan, that the U.S. has developed a "radioactive cloud" that is effective over a much wider area than an atomic bomb, and "kills anyone who comes in contact with...
...possible but unlikely theory: a killing cloud might be formed by dispersing radioactive byproducts of plutonium-making piles. The byproducts are deadly, all right, but if large quantities were loaded on an airplane without prohibitively massive shielding, the first casualties would probably be the crew...
...Raven comes to the U.S. under a cloud that is mostly hot air. The picture was made with German financing during the occupation. Rumor said that it was so ruthless an exposure of French decadence that it was shown in Germany, as anti-French propaganda, under the title A Small French City. Actually, the film is neither more nor less anti-nationalist than the work of any intelligent, morally responsible artist, in time of peace or war. Propaganda or not, the picture was not shown in wartime Germany; indeed it was banned there (Germans, after all, might observe that...
Sinners need not hang back, says the Cloud: "No man needs to think that he is presumptuous in daring to offer himself to God as a contemplative even though he has been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew...
...short-lived particles knocked out of .atomic nuclei. It takes a lot of punch to knock them out. Before the 4,000-ton cyclotron developed sufficient punch, the only mesons in captivity had been trapped in the wild. Dr. Carl Anderson of CalTech found their characteristic tracks in a cloud chamber. Other scientists found two types, heavy and light, in photographic plates exposed on high mountains. All had been formed by cosmic rays, the enormously powerful particles that strike down out of space. No man-pushed particle was strong enough to engender a single meson...