Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats on which you will sit are in ruins. Your clothes are likely to be dirtied by dust...We are not responsible for injury caused to anyone attending the concert...
...birth of Christ. Behind the orchestra pit lay cracked columns and stonework that bore witness to the far reach of the Roman Empire: pink granite from Egypt, creamy marble from Greece and Asia. The crumbling limestone seats, only recently excavated by Italian archaelogists, were liberally sprinkled with the dust of centuries...
...dust and debris were quickly forgotten when the festival's star performer strode onto the makeshift, wood-planked stage. Master Cellist Pablo Casals, a sprightly 84, brought concertgoers leaping from their rough-hewn seats in a rising ovation. The aging artist beamed. "Where did all those people come from?" he asked. They came from Haifa to the north, from kibbutzim in the shadow of Mount Carmel, from army headquarters in Tel Aviv-and they came chiefly to hear Pablo Casals...
When Australia's Physicist Edward G. Bowen first proposed the startling theory that the earth's rainfall is strongly influenced by showers of space dust, most meteorologists howled him down. But Welsh-born Bowen is hard to discourage. For eight years, whenever he could take time from his job as chief of the Radiophysics Division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he searched for evidence to buttress his argument. He found a hopeful amount, and by last week Physicist Bowen had become something of a meteorological hero. After hearing Bowen talk at the International...
Meteor Streams. Bowen's long study of space dust began back in 1953, when he noticed that certain days of each year had abnormally high rainfall. In his search for an explanation, Bowen quickly eliminated the high and low pressure areas that meteorologists generally blame for rainfall. They appear too irregularly, and they never affect the whole earth in the same way at the same time. Bowen was more intrigued by the streams of meteors that the earth passes through on regular schedule. When he looked up the dates of known meteor showers, he found that they seemed...