Word: rections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sferic's antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
...coals flying about the room might ignite the window shades and the books in the bookcase ["Witchery in North Dakota," TIME, April 24], but really, isn't it a bit preposterous to assume that the dictionary's molecules would coincidentally happen to go in the same di rection at the same time? Has Dr. Gamow figured the odds on such a double accident...