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...particles of it were blown out of the solar system by the pressure of sunlight. The larger ones were swept up by the planets or captured by the sun itself. The existing particles are comparatively "young" (as ages are measured in astronomy); they were formed, thinks Struve, by the "gravel-mill" action of the bodies in the solar system clashing against one another...
Collisions between two small objects (asteroid size or less) are probably quite frequent, and in such cases there is no atmosphere and little gravity to keep dust particles from wandering off on their own. It is mostly these small encounters in the solar system's gravel mill that keep the zodiacal light shining faintly...
...part of the usually sane and solid British public had surrendered to the most unblushing piece of pseudo-nursery nonsense since 1939's Three Little Fishies. I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat, a baby-talk duet between a nasal, lisping little bird named Tweetie Pie and a gravel-voiced cat named Sylvester (both parts sung by Radio Actor Mel Blanc), had passed the quarter-million mark in record sales, stood second on the British hit parade...
...been waiting 19½ years for this moment, and now it's here." With these words, Zenith Radio's gravel-voiced President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. this week began a trial run of his much-delayed Phonevision. The testing ground: 300 selected Chicago homes...
...years of reporting, Sprigle has covered state gravel scandals, the coercion of W.P.A. workers, 14 executions, black marketeering, and war correspondence...