Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...application. The Bureau of Standards and the Duron Paint Co. advised stripping off the accumulation, in some places 50 layers deep. Four years ago, the east wall was cleaned and yielded its story for Seale. Scorch marks from the fire set in 1814 by the British rascal General Robert Ross were still visible. Lumpy mounds turned out to be exquisite carvings, done by skilled immigrant stonecarvers who had fled the turmoil in Europe. One good thing about all that slapdash painting: the sandstone was in excellent shape, ready for another 200 years...
...stars age, they eject matter, which causes them to spin down as angular momentum is carried away, explains Ross D. Cohen of the University of California at San Diego. If stars contract, they may spin up by this effect alone. The spin up of stars is apparently possible during periods when star contraction is much more rapid than matter ejection...
Quaker safety Ross Armstrong picked the ball off in midair, returning it to the Harvard...
Reported by Sandra Burton/Manila and Ross H. Munro/Washington
Reported by Ross H. Munro/Washington