Word: corona
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...wall of multicolored manila folders for every chapter and subsection. Into the room-long row of folders he piled notes, clippings, dozens of scrawled, yellow-paper memos-"Why so much education?", "All small talk in modern Russian novels is about nuts and bolts." Settling down at his battered Smith-Corona typewriter, across from a child's map of the world, Gunther started out with the inside chapters on the Kremlin hierarchy, plowed through what he calls "the picture stuff," i.e., travelogue chapters, tackled science and education, wound up writing the topical opening and concluding chapters...
...hours a day. To catch its important ultraviolet and X rays, which do not penetrate to the surface, balloons soar high in the air and rockets climb to the top of the atmosphere on a regular schedule. Special instruments watch the sun's glowing outer corona, which may extend as a tenuous gas all the way to the earth...
...creamy-skinned girl with classically solid Slavic good looks under a gloss of glamour. Her hazel eyes are long-lashed and deep-socketed; her full mouth pouts ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With no effort at all, she generates a kind of sex appeal that is strangely rare in a town where sex is a major product. Marilyn Monroe parodies sex, and Jayne Mansfield parodies Marilyn Monroe. Kim Novak simply communicates sex without leers. She moves in a kind...
...generally, the year had a pleasant beginning. The Student Council discovered it had paid its debt, the University was permitting students to cut classes the day before and after vacations, and students could buy crimson and white Corona Portable typewriters with "H U" on them at the Coop. Kellogg's All-Bran was prescribed (by the Kellogg Company) as the way to end the "widespread evil" of constipation causing most of the ill health which harms effective studying. The little Psychological Clinic was forced by the needs of House Plan Unit No. 1 to move from 19 Beaver Street...
Portable Electric Typewriter. Smith-Corona put on sale the first production models of its new 18-lb. portable electric typewriter. Convenient for travelers, the portable is also aimed at bringing the uniform printing-press quality of costlier full-size electric models within reach of small business and professional men. Price...