Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden glow which accompanied the Republican Administration even transformed personalities. George E. Allen, as a government official in the Truman Administration, was worked over as follows...
...paintings, just as someone may learn to appreciate a homely woman because of her fine spirit. A modern abstract artist no longer paints his mother from a particular spot in the kitchen, at a particular hour in the afternoon when the light falls on her face with a certain glow. Instead, he paints a composite idea of his mother to show how he has felt toward her during her lifetime. He prefers to paint her not as a model but as an idea. Therefore, an abstract work of art is a projection of the mind of an artist...
...sodium rocket was not merely a beautiful and expensive firework; it had a serious scientific purpose: to help the Air Force's long-range study of the upper atmosphere. Part of the "air glow" (the faint glow of the night sky) comes from sodium atoms that absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated...
...putting a known amount of sodium vapor into the atmosphere at a known altitude, the sodium rocket will enable scientists to learn more about the natural sodium that is already there. They can compare the air glow coming from the two lots of sodium, and since the amount of one is known, the amount of the other may be calculated...
...sodium vapor that the Air Force put into the atmosphere will drift with the winds. If it increases the normal air glow, it can be followed, perhaps for considerable distances. A cloud of sodium of known origin picked up by astronomers' instruments in the Eastern states will be a fine way to measure wind velocity at levels that no weather balloon can reach...