Word: correspondant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty to look for. The sun sends out radio "noise," but not very much of it, considering its size and nearness (93 million miles). Far more interesting are a number of mysterious "point sources" scattered around the sky. More than 30 have been found so far. They do not correspond to any object that shines with visible light. They appear to be very distant and perhaps as big as stars. They must be peculiar stars, however, for apparently they send out 100 million times as much radio energy...
Springtime for Henry. In the spring, Koerner's work is largely worry. By summertime he has worried into existence a dozen new ideas for pictures, sets out to find landscapes and models that correspond with what he has in mind. He sketches everywhere, with a fountain pen, often returns to make color sketches in gouache. By fall he is ready to start on the year's oils, which he finishes, all more or less together, in January...
...nine-foot channel, fine. But since the commencement of the nine-foot channel on the Missouri, a 12-foot channel has been started in the Mississippi. The nine-foot channel on the Mo was chosen in preference to the proposed six-foot in order that the system might correspond to that on the Mississippi. Now, with the 12-foot channel already planned for the Mississippi, the P-S crows plunge blindly ahead with their nine-foot ditch for the Missouri...
Recently, a Chicago commercial photographer received a written request from a Latin American advertising agency for a photograph of a certain model. She should correspond, the agency explained, to a phrase in TIME which said: "She just makes you feel thirty." After some research the photographer found that the phrase referred to Louise Hyde, who was mentioned in TIME'S cover story on Model Lisa Fonssagrives (Sept. 19, 1949). However, TIME had quoted Miss Hyde's television sponsor, a soft drink manufacturer, as having characterized her as "the girl who makes you feel thirsty...