Word: colo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before it became a ghost in 1894, the crowded, rough mining town of Aspen, Colo, had a last burst of excitement. From Smuggler Mine on a nearby slope, prospectors took out a nugget of almost pure silver weighing 2,060 pounds...
Colorado Springs, Colo...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...
Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them he learned, among other priceless lessons, to be a good listener...
High (11,500 ft.) in the Rockies near Climax, Colo., Dr. Roberts watches the sun through the thin, clean air and through Harvard's coronagraph, with its birefringent filter. He finds the sight a perpetual three-ring circus. From the dazzling surface of the sun (well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...