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Heavy enough hydrogen clouds, however, manage to bend the magnetic lines of force into a gigantic funnel. Then sun particles pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Northern Lights | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Government has now begun to listen to the truckers' plea for materials with a more sympathetic ear, has started to funnel more scarce materials away from light trucks to heavy truck & trailer makers. (By diverting rubber from civilian tires, rubbermen increased truck-tire output last month to 360,000 from 317,000 in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Trailer King | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...states, is shaped like an inverted funnel, and is absolutely cold. Heat and light occur only when the sun's rays strike the atmosphere. Maciver admits that he was hesitant about discarding long established scientific theories. He believes he knows, however, why so many scientists before him went astray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmography Offers New Theory of Universe, Claims Sun Stands Still in Space Below Earth | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

Fair also complained that absence of a traffic light at De Wolfe Street and Memorial Drive has caused many serious accidents. The intersection is misleading to motorists who pass at high speeds into to funnel only to find that it narrows quickly into a one way street which they are not permitted to enter, Fair added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair Begs MDC For Weeks' Lights | 4/26/1951 | See Source »

...adjunct to Secretary Acheson's plan to funnel complaints about aggression through the veto-less General Assembly, the foreign minister of Yugoslavia has proposed to the United Nations a definition of an "aggressor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aggression | 11/14/1950 | See Source »

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