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...high pressure zone in the northeast and the low pressure zone at the southern end of the Appalachians caused an increased pressure gradient. A large warm air mass from the Atlantic Ocean then moved in towards the west and precipitated its moisture on contact with the cold air masses...
...This swift succession of catastrophic events on a steeply mounting gradient inevitably inspires a dark doubt about our future, and this doubt threatens to undermine our faith and hope at a critical eleventh hour which calls for the utmost exertion of these saving spiritual faculties. Here is a challenge which we cannot evade, and our destiny depends on our response...
...used to make herself and other young Roosevelts jump off sandcliffs at Oyster Bay, to teach them how far you slide going downhill and how hard it is to climb back up. Precisely, chimed in her husband; his latest lending program had been devised to create a gentle gradient instead of a cruel precipice...
...That gas, which we assume was present in the top of the ship, was ignited either by lightning or by a static spark. The meteorological situation . . . was such that a greater potential gradient* could not be present at the time of the fire. ... If one studies the wind directions and velocities and temperatures more closely as indicated on the charts, he can recognize that the first storm must have been followed by a smaller...
...stratosphere varies in height from about eleven miles at the Equator to four or less at the Poles. One of its chief features is that there is practically no vertical temperature gradient. By describing it as "a calm and weatherless region," TIME meant that it lies above the turbulence, heavy clouds and precipitation which characterize the troposphere or surface layer of the atmosphere...