Word: halos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of them actually looked like hats. The freaks of 1946 were gone. Naturally, if a woman wanted to, she could still manage to get loaded down with a bowlful of fruit or a portable flower garden. But most husbands could see their wives in a Walter Florell lace halo or a Sally Victor straw without reaching for something to swat it with. Straws (from the Far East, Milan, Panama) were back in quantity, and popular...
Polished cars filed past the doors of the Hartman Theater to fill the house to capacity ; in the frosty air, flashbulbs popped at minks and orchids and opera hats. Mrs. James Dunn (wife of the Cinemactor, one of the leading players) arrived in a halo of roses and a black satin dress. White tie & tails mingled with business suits, and some sweater-bearing bobby-soxers craned their necks in vain for a look at Author O'Neill (he never attends his openings, and stayed in Manhattan). Ohio's Governor Thomas J. Herbert took his place...
...thought to be formed. His original idea was to study how bacteria modify crude oil (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945). But in 1943, he found in sea mud a comma-shaped bacterium which he named (he was only 38 at the time, and feeling in the pink) desulphovibrio halo-hydrocarbonoclasticus. He put it in a test tube filled with material to simulate a limestone oilsand. Four days later, oil bubbled out of the test tube's mouth. A little later, all the oil in the sand was gone...
Another approach is the "coronagraph," developed by Dr. Bernard Lyot of France in 1930. It is a telescope with an internal disc hiding the face of the sun, and specially designed to eliminate glare. Though tricky, it works even better than the spectroheliograph, showing the corona, the faintly glowing halo which surrounds...
...oratorical field day in five years, the choicest paeans were reserved for the newly-created Philippine Republic and the American colonial policy that sanctioned its independence. But as Washington lays down the white man's burden, and as Congress examines our colonial past in the light of its new halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill has given Manila just eight years grace from American tariff...