Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl in St.-Sauveur" and his father as "a wonderful man who bought me a rebuilt typewriter for $80, at installments of $5 a month." Lemelin's business acumen and his taste for literature showed themselves almost simultaneously. At 14, he organized a group of boys to shovel snow off doorsteps, at 5? each. In the process, he stumbled across a large building filled with books - the provincial library - and, upon inquiring, learned he could borrow two books a week. He recalls: "They were the first serious books I read. A universe of light was opened wide...
...stream in from outer space. With far more force than an atom-smasher, the cosmic rays collide with nitrogen atoms. The crash produces hydrogen, carbon 14 and a minute amount of radioactive tritium. The atoms of cosmic tritium join molecules of water vapor and fall to the earth in snow and rain...
Tritium has a half-life of 12½ years, i.e., half its radioactivity is dissipated in that time. "If our calculations are correct," says Chemist Libby, "then water 12½ years old should be only half as radioactive as new rainwater or snow...
...screen in the yard's four-story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though the equipment will continue to be tested for operation in snow and sleet conditions B. & O. already pronounced it "ideal for watching yard operations-especially blind spots and ends of yards distant from the yardmaster's office." The biggest appeal for RCA's new closed-circuit TV unit was its price: $5,500, only one-third or less of the cost...
Much of Guderian's record has the quality of a G-3 report. But when the Russians turn on Guderian in subzero weather, the military prose gives way to simple despair: "Only he who saw the endless expanse of Russian snow during this winter of our misery and felt the icy wind that blew across it, burying in snow every object in its path: who drove for hour after hour through that no-man's-land only at last to find too thin shelter with insufficiently clothed, half-starved men: and who also saw by contrast the well...