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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth's climate is affected by interstellar dust and gas that sometimes shut off much of the sun's light. The Ice Ages were caused partly by such shadowing, partly by the slipping of the earth's crust, which shifted now-tropical sections of the earth's surface into the polar regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bold Star Gazer | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...mysterious corona (seen during solar eclipses) is caused by dust and gas falling into the sun. This may mean that the sun is still growing slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bold Star Gazer | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Taikwan, on the silk, dust the red sealing ink with powdered coral, then ring the bell for his woman servant to bring him a warm cup of sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great-Outlook Master | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Herbig's new-found stars prove to be real infants, they will reinforce the idea, already held by many astronomers, that stars are being formed continuously out of dust and gas in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Infant Stars? | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...sort of two-dimensional adjunct to her great husband Robert Louis Stevenson. Now, all at once, Fanny is three-dimensional. Anthologist-Author Charles Neider, aided by infra-red and ultraviolet light, but hindered by often almost illegible handwriting, has published Fanny's diary, which he discovered gathering dust in a Monterey, Calif, museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fanny | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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