Word: colder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 8--President Eisenhower tomorrow heads for India, keystone of his 11-nation tour. On the way he plans to spend five hours in Afghanistan, a country with a colder climate, both literally and figuratively, than he encountered here in the warm embrace of Pakistan's capital...
...that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
Alexander Colder, 61, made sculpture move. Thirty-one years ago, in Paris, he started stringing cards of various colors on a coat-hanger form and let them dangle and twirl. Finally, Calder settled on free forms, flying leaflike on the ends of metal branches strung from wire. "Mobiles" were born, and their cheerful bobbing and spinning helped many an observer find and appreciate other motions in nature. To turn from a pond or a tree tossing in the wind to look at an outdoor Calder, and then back again, can be one of the most rewarding experiences in modern...
...Whither is God?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must...
Unless they are fertilized by currents from colder areas, tropical seas are largely sterile. Since the richest harvests of the sea derive from bottom water rising to the surface, oceanographers have long had the notion of creating artificial upwelling in sterile parts of the ocean. One possibility is a nuclear reactor sitting on the bottom and slightly warming the water around it. The warmed water will rise, carrying nutrients to the surface and turning clear water, admired only by tourists, into rich, turbid pastures. Another way would be to pump deep water into some closed area, such as a Pacific...