Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among these "unusual conditions," Menzel includes effects caused by aurora borealis, which occur when the air is ionized by radio-active particles coming to earth from explosions on the sun. Aside from atmospheric effects, he finds, "saucers" can be caused even by particles of dust on the observer's face...
Little has changed in the store since the exhibition. The position of the books has shifted somewhat and the dust on the walls has certainly increased but essentially the Grolier is the same as when it opened...
...their subjects from "What Is Religion?" to "The Christian Notion of Marriage," the religious essays in The Hidden Stream are a once-over-lightly in the principles of Catholicism, delivered with an easy candor that makes rebuttals, for a time, seem almost as trivial as a few motes of dust in a cozy Oxford common room. Excerpts...
...recording truck that had cost $65,000 to build. On its maiden field trip two years ago, it proved so defective that "about $25,000 or $30,000" more was spent for alterations. After a few more expeditions, the monster was confined to a garage, where it now gathers dust...
...commodity markets, where falling prices have worried the Administration, there was some cheer last week. Wholesale pork prices went up and beef prices steadied. As dust storms whipped the winter-wheat areas of the Southwest, wheat prices scooted up 4½ to 6½? a bushel; corn, helped by news that the Government would step up purchases, also moved higher. The rally in grain prices was the best in two months...