Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the wet Indiana sky last week the delicate green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...
Sixty miles up in the sky there is a cloud of electricity. Tonight, slowly and mysteriously, it will vanish. Professor Roland B. Holt wants to know...
Holt studies the region high above the earth, where the sky is always black and the temperature may be 1000 degrees. By working in a Jefferson Hall laboratory, he is learning the processes which might explain the nightly disappearance of the electron cloud...
...work in the ionosphere ties in with the research of Professor Harry R. Mimno. Mimno is sending short-wave radio beams into the sky, to study how they bounce off the upper layers of the air. What he finds may change the future of radio transmission...
...smiled to himself as he adjusted the shower curtain and tested the water with his elbow. This was Thesis Day. He had noticed the red circle on his calendar as he slipped from his bunk that morning, and there was something expectant in the blue sky outside the window. Or perhaps he was expectant. He forced himself under the cold water to ready his wits for the long day ahead. He always thought better with his pores closed...