Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This order requires a 25 percent reduction in the use of electricity for outdoor or indoor illumination in non-residential buildings...
Waddells staged that the French government is planning to send 300,000 children for "paysage" vacations next summer, and the need for American specialists in swimming, nature study handicrafts and outdoor sports is great...
...breathed into the chamber and his breath condensed to fog. He made a magic pass with a single pellet of dry ice. The fog cleared, and glittering snowflakes drifted on to the chamber's floor. From this point it was easy to expand the process to full, outdoor scale...
Both the indoor fog and the outdoor cloud, explained Schaefer, were "supercooled"; their tiny droplets, though well below the freezing point, were liquid water, not ice. They wanted to freeze, but for some reason could not. The dry-ice pellets broke the deadlock. "An almost infinite number" of submicroscopic "ice seeds" formed near their surface. These grew into snowflakes at the expense of the water droplets. The supercooled cloud precipitated...
...from the unfortunate Baltimore affair.* U.S. sailors and marines, well briefed on good-neighborly conduct, went over big with Chileans at last week's presidential inauguration. At outdoor parties and at the huge fiesta in Santiago's Plaza Bulnes, sailors smiled at señoritas. In Valparaiso, a U.S. gob took up a blind beggar's guitar, played it to a huge audience for two hours, turned over a mendicant's fortune to the beggar...