Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is not really much mystery about green, red or other-colored rain. A quick-acting biologist could probably have proved with a few squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...
...Wright Brothers endeavored to take off in the manner you describe [TIME, Feb. 9], they would still be sitting on their skids at Kitty Hawk. ... It was quite impossible for a 12 h.p. motor to lift that plane off the ground. It was launched by a catapult, which consisted of a heavy weight hoisted to the top of a triangular tower and attached by ropes and pulleys to the front of a monorail car running on a wooden track. The plane was balanced on the car, and as the engine revved up, the weight was released. The car hurtled down...
...Kierkegaard's: "Sin presupposes sin." That is, sin need not inevitably arise from man's anxiety if sin were not already in the world. Niebuhr finds the agent of this prehistoric sin in the Devil, a fallen angel who "fell because [like man] he sought to lift himself above his measure, and who in turn insinuates temptation into human life." Thus, "the sin of each individual is preceded by Adam's sin; but even this first sin of history is not the first sin. One may, in other words, go farther back than human history and still...
...actual schussing; others who hurtle awkwardly into snowdrifts aren't so sure; the beginner can't stay on his feet long enough to reach a conclusion. A small portion of male skiers and a far larger female contingent end this conflict by deciding it's the social lift that makes the ski weekend. These, dear reader, are the snowbunnies...
...Louria, at 165 for the Crimson, faces his toughest opponent of the year in a five foot five powerhouse named Freddy Allner who specializes in a heretofore unstoppable variation of the fireman's lift for a takedown. At 175, Bob Claflin has Princeton's captain Mat Atkinson, but their records this season are comparable while at 121 Dave Coombs also has a first-rate opponent...