Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurrah for Uncle Autumn. Western Germany last week was full of hope. The summer had been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...
...nominal tuition fee, students must contribute two days of manual labor each semester to clearing away rubble and doing repair work. The winter term (which used to run until March) now starts earlier, stops at Christmas. With not enough coal to heat classrooms, students wear dyed Wehrmacht overcoats to cold-weather lectures; a chilling wind seeps through the cracks or whistles through the holes in bombed-out walls. (Windows are fixed with "Hitler glass," a kind of cellophane Hallstein acidly describes as "one of the big gifts this man gave to the German people.") The rector had planned to spend...
Most of the students are watching the cold war with the air of gamblers waiting to place their bets. Says Hallstein: "They don't yet see which of these principles is more persuasive-government founded on power or on moral principles. In the German tradition are elements of both. You will not find many students who make a clear choice between east and west. They feel it may be dangerous to take a stand...
...more advanced model would float serenely to earth on a large parachute. It would be equipped with a heater to keep the pilot from freezing to death in the cold upper air. The really de luxe models may be watertight and stocked with provisions to keep the pilot alive for a while if he falls into...
...lower air levels are already pretty well watched by civilian weathermen. What interests the Air Force is the area far above-the clear, thin, cold upper atmosphere, where winds of enormous velocity blow around the world. The big job of meteorologists at present is to study these winds and learn how they stir up the atmosphere down below. The Air Force is charting atmospheric conditions up to 20,000 feet for the whole northern hemisphere. Soon it plans to extend the survey up to 40,000 feet...