Word: noonday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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fighters dove out of the noonday...
Suddenly there was a tremendous sustained roar. In Albuquerque, 120 miles away, the sky blazed noonday-bright. The scientists close at hand looked up in time to see a huge, multicolored pillar of cloud surging up over 40,000 feet...
Avoid the Noonday Sun. All this, thinks Dr. Cowles, may be a warning to man. He cites the fact that high fever sometimes causes temporary human sterility. A 1943 survey in Galveston, Tex. showed that the rate of conception of babies is higher in cool seasons than in warm. Other investigators have reported that the fertility of white men is greatly reduced in the tropics, and even natives conceive fewer children in the hot months. Dr. Cowles believes it entirely possible that a sustained cycle of hot climate on the earth might radically change or even wipe out the human...
...over the U.S. last week thousands of churches held special services to observe April 25 as a Day of Prayer. In Boston. 300 stood in a noonday drizzle for an outdoor service. In Evanston. Ill.. 500 went through the rain to St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Oilfield workers in overalls joined 2,250 Oklahoma Citizens at a Methodist service...
...first top-rank officer of World War II to go to Congress became a Senator last week. With no more ceremony than a noonday oath and handshaking all around, the Senate welcomed Admiral Thomas C. Hart, appointed by Connecticut's Governor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Francis Maloney (TIME, Feb. 12). High-collared, 67-year-old Tommy Hart became the occupant of the 40th Republican seat in the upper house, the first U.S. admiral ever to sit in the U.S. Senate...