Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menzel to be "islands of intense calm floating in the otherwise turbulent sea of the Sun's atmosphere." Accordingly, the staff at Sacramento Peak had been watching a large cluster of sunspots covering over three billion square miles of the Sun's surface. Before the giant flare was seen, seven smaller flares had been observed, like rumblings before a storm. When a flare breaks out it spews a large number of electrically charged particles out into space; the bombardment of the Earth's atmosphere by these particles is thought to be the cause of aurorae, magnetic disturbances, freakish radio reception...
...normal range of fifty miles was startled to pick up a station from Texas, but a Trans World Airlines pilot had to fly thousands of miles over the North Pole without radio contact anywhere. As soon as the Sun set on the evening of the tenth, aurorae were seen around the world, even in some latitudes where they had not appeared within memory. The display was so bright that it was seen in New York City, whose smoke and lights make it one of the world's worst observation points. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Chairman of the Astronomy Department said next...
...team from the College will be seen in Burr Lecture Hall B and heard over radio station WGBH-FM at 5 p.m. Those attending are asked to arrive...
What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...
...Catholic priest seemed to agree. At a World Council reception in Geneva, he commented: "Let us all pray that God will give the Holy Father the strength to break through the opposition of the Curia. One must not forget that these cardinals in their ivory Vatican tower have never seen Protestants, and feel no need for contacts with something that to them does not exist. The Pope is a man of great experience. Let us hope he can make the weight of his enlightened judgment felt...