Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later that day astronomers pieced together the evidence, agreed that a bolide (the biggest kind of meteor), traveling on a west-to-east course just north of Philadelphia, must have exploded and dropped its fragments into...
...bolide is the only noisy type of meteor.* It is said to move at a rate of five to 20 miles a second. As it travels, air piles up in front of it, making a windy whoosh. Air friction turns the outside of the meteor white-hot while the inside remains cold. A few seconds after it hits the earth's atmosphere, the bolide explodes with a bang...
...person who watched last year's Crimson team meteor to its astonishing success, can forget Vern Miller, who is now writing a sports column for the Boston Globe Miller will speak at 10:50 o'clock tonight as part of a series of programs resumed from last spring known as the National News Review...
...River Line auctioned off its ships. Last December the boats of Eastern Steamship Line were requisitioned by the Government. Last Sunday the four-decked buff-funneled Arrow, last ship of the Colonial Line, ploughed down the Sound from Providence to New York, to follow its two sister ships (Comet & Meteor) into Government service...
...Seaboard's Silver Meteor and Atlantic Coast Line's Champion, all-coach streamliners which have made the New York-Florida run faster than the fastest Pullmans, had sleepers added to appease Pullman patrons...