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Word: skywards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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College tuition rates will not follow the skyward pattern of the rest of the Ivy League, according to current plans, Provost Buck said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College, Graduate Tuitions Will Stay at Present Rate | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

Like light waves, radio frequency energy tends to travel in a straight line. In the lower frequencies, radio waves that shoot skyward bounce back from electrically charged layers of the upper atmosphere, thus clearing the curve of the earth. Most Very High Frequency waves (30 to 300 megacycles) bore right through the upper atmosphere and are dissipated into outer space, so V.H.F. should not travel far beyond the visual horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reflected Waves | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...fine and a year's imprisonment. Radar stations plot the flight to make sure an expected plane is no more than five minutes off schedule or 20 miles off course. If an aircraft is not identified within three minutes, R.C.A.F. (or U.S.A.F.) fighters streak skyward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Ready for Alerts | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Krick's method uses coke-burning generators which send silver-iodide particles skyward to increase precipitation. His theories of weather forecasting and rainmaking have been opposed by the U.S. Weather Bureau, Physicist Irving Langmuir, who started cloud seeding, and many another scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Milkman of the Skies | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...believe that the people of Kamela know so little about trees. As for your correspondent: Didn't he ever see a fence stapled to a sapling? And did it grow skyward with the tree? . . . WILBUR O'BYRNE Blacksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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