Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planets. Sir James Jeans pictured the passing star as raising a huge tide on the sun, eventually pulling out a long filament of sun-stuff which broke up into major pieces. British Harold Jeffreys favored an actual collision of sun and star, the two bodies drawing out a ribbon of their commingled substance as they veered away from each other. Other theorists supposed that the sun had originally been a double star, that an intruding third star had carried away the sun's companion but had left behind enough debris for planet-building...
...blue ribbon event of the night will be the 600 yard run in which Jim Lightbody will attempt to maintain his superiority, established when he set a new record of 1 minute 12.4 seconds last year. Dramatic interest will be added to the race because this will probably be the only time Lightbody will run alone in the intercollegiates in the indoor season; he will concentrate on the relays at the intercollegiates. As a fitting climax, Lighbody may break his own record at the meet. It is expected that Cornell's new Sophomore star, Ken Zeigler, Jim Ord of Yale...
Like a slow ribbon of cigar smoke in a smoky room, a story curled around the House of Representatives last week. It got in Congressmen's eyes, made them cough and blink. The story was as hard to take as a Wheeling stogie, and like a stogie, it carried a kick...
...into the red. (Estimated loss: $160,000.) Circulation dropped from 170,792 to around 160,000. Colonel Visniskki, called in to see what could be economized, handed President George Kearney a 672-page report on Christmas Eve. President Kearney wrapped it in tissue paper, tied it with gaily colored ribbon, took it out to Gary Bok's home in the country...
...each wave is tiny and each atom sends out a wave only once in 1,000 to 100,000,000 years. But there are so many billions of atoms in a small pinch of substance that Dr. Rabi gets a continuous program on his detector, which is a ribbon of incandescent tungsten in an oscillating electromagnetic field. He expects to use atomic radio to learn more about the nuclear structure and energy mechanism of atoms. The physicists admired his discovery and Dr. Rabi got a $1,000 prize for the A. A. A. S. convention's best paper...