Word: layering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typhoon Days. The typhoon was about to break against the next layer of Jap defenses. But by definition the typhoon moves in orderly fashion, always in the same counterclockwise direction,* about a single center. And U.S. Army authorities were uncomfortably aware that the United Nations effort against Japan still had four centers, largely unrelated...
...smoke, hurls knives at royalty, effects a hairbreadth escape from the royal guards, marries off his pretty, dark-haired daughter (Joy Ann Page) to the handsome young caliph (James Craig), carries off Miss Dietrich for himself. Meantime Miss Dietrich, her renowned legs and lesser anatomy encased in a heavy layer of gold paint, performs a Hollywood nautch dance as politely voluptuous as the Hays office allows...
...officials figured that the simplest way to dispose of the nearly two million bad eggs would be to bury them beyond the town limits of South Burlington. They hired a bulldozer, dumped five carloads into a gully, and covered the yolky quagmire with a thin layer of sandy topsoil...
Under the stress of tiring work or a shortage of oxygen, the cortex (outer layer) of the kidneys' adrenal glands secretes unusual amounts of certain hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...radio beam follows the earth's curvature, instead of sailing into space, because it bounces along a reflecting roof of electrically charged particles, called the Kennelly -Heaviside layer, which blankets the earth's outer atmosphere. Physicists have measured the height of this layer, varying from 60 to 1,200 mi., by bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument...