Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latter proposal, of course, is finding increasing favor across the nation, and a frightened cluster of special interest groups is buying thousands of column inches in magazines and newspapers in order to fight it. Under the headline, "Government Always Shrinks a Dollar," Republic Steel periodically tells readers that "whenever the government finances something for you, you pay for it--through taxes--with your own dollar that has inevitably been shrunk...
...school of Geology, the Institute of Biology, an addition to Jefferson, Wigglesworth Hall (completing the "cloistering" of the Yard), the Faculty Club, and the mammoth Indoor Athletic Building--all were under way, and some ready to be opened. But the center of attraction remained a cluster of neo-Georgian structures along the river--Lowell's new Houses. In late September, the President conducted a press tour of the newly opened Dunster and Lowell. The latter's first High Table was held soon after, and things went up from there...
...term the Dean of Students recognized 13 political clubs and of these, three dominate the scene: the Young Democrats with 224 members, the Young Republicants with 160, and the UN Council with 150. Further down the scale, the Liberal Union has its 50, and the other clubs form a cluster with from 15 to 30 members each...
...Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio one day last week, a burly, handsome, four-star general stepped forward to face General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff. Moments later, General Edwin W. Rawlings was sporting a new piece of hardware on his chest: a first oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal. With this parting gift, Ed Rawlings officially concluded 30 years of extraordinary service to the Air Force, went on his way at a youthful 54 to a civilian job as director and financial vice president of General Mills. Left behind: a Rawlings-rejuvenated Air Materiel...
...scientists have known for some time that flares generally occur where there is a large concentration of sunspots, thought by Menzel to be "islands of intense calm floating in the otherwise turbulent sea of the Sun's atmosphere." Accordingly, the staff at Sacramento Peak had been watching a large cluster of sunspots covering over three billion square miles of the Sun's surface. Before the giant flare was seen, seven smaller flares had been observed, like rumblings before a storm. When a flare breaks out it spews a large number of electrically charged particles out into space; the bombardment...