Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone who has glanced aloft at the high, feathery cirrus clouds knows that they often move at impressive speed, but until the U.S. B-29s began bombing Japan, no one realized just how hard the high winds could blow. Sometimes the bombers were even blown backwards by head winds approaching 200 m.p.h...
Numbers Game. The most exciting postwar news for Rossby was the appearance of high-speed electronic computing machines. Meteorologists had often dreamed of "numerical forecasting," i.e., predicting the future actions of the atmosphere by applying mathematical equations to its current pattern, but they were stopped at once by two difficulties: 1) they did not know the proper equations, and 2) they would have to do so much figuring that they could not keep up with the weather, let alone forecast it. British Meteorologist L. F. Richardson described in 1922 a forecasting center built like a gigantic theater, with...
...Henry Brant knows every sonority that has ever been tried and quite a few that have not. When the 10 flutes start a massed flutter-tongue passage, it sounds as prickly as a porcupine's wedding; other fascinating moments are reminiscent of a jazz band playing at top speed, a steam calliope, a sound track for a science-fiction film-all a frothy treat...
...other non-sophomore is junior Raymond, who normally wrestles at 177. Although he will probably be giving up nearly 10 pounds to his opponent, he has the speed and strength to offset this disadvantage...
...added, however, that "events are moving too fast in the international community to allow for the glacier-like speed with which protection of some important human rights has been developing in some states...