Word: colder
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...areas near the poles where there is little or no sun in winter to warm the air, little wind to bring in warm air, and few clouds to screen the ground from outer space. Under these conditions, the air near the surface loses heat by radiation, often getting considerably colder than the atmosphere far above...
Except when affected by local conditions (such as low level radiation), the air gets steadily colder with increased altitude. The decline continues up to the top of the troposphere (the atmosphere's lowest layer). Above this lies the stratosphere, where the temperature remains almost constant...
Over the poles, the troposphere goes up 14 to 15 kilometers (9 miles) above sea level. Over the equator it goes higher: 17 kilometers (10½ miles). The higher the troposphere rises the colder it gets. So the coldest air temperatures (about -132° F.) are above the hot equator. High above the North Pole, it probably gets no colder than...
...Gets the Cash With the bogy of John L. Lewis looming big and black over bearish Wall Street, the market for new stock issues had seldom looked colder. But General Motors Corp., hard up for ready cash to carry out its $500 million reconversion and expansion program (TIME, Nov. 18), plunged in anyway, found the water was not as cold as it looked. G.M.'s new issue of $100 million of preferred stock, largest new-money preferred issue of all time, was snapped up in short order last week. In a few hours, the stock ($100 a share...
...streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike in a hurry, Christmas might be merely one of the year's colder days...