Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
...audience was Dr. Werner Kohlhoerster of Germany, cosmic ray specialist who last year announced from an observation pit in the Alps that he thought the rays emanated, at present, chiefly from the northeastern heavens, where the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda are giving off enormous quantities of energy from spiral (star-forming) nebulae (TIME...
...demands nothing of the audience but open eyes and attentive years, and the other which makes the audience meet it half-way," stated Andre Charlot, well known as the originator and producer of Charlot's Revues, to an interviewer who was still puffing after the arduous climb up the spiral stairway which twists from the floor back stage up toward the mase of curtains and back drops to the dressing rooms of the New Park Theatre...
...mathematics multiplied the distance of the heavens into infinity and the stars receded from the imagination of men into the dusty records of the Observatory. Spiral nebulae and the gaseous composition of a certain sun of the third magnitude have ceased to be news, not only to the general public but to the college which supports one of the finest observatories in the world. Monthly reports on the progress of man's knowledge of the universe promptly arrive on the city editor's desk and as promptly find their way to the waste- basket. The strange, the almost miraculous, certainly...
...Wells believes that as our life span increases we ascend the spiral of progress. Sex, he thinks, becomes of less importance and civilization attains maturity. By artificially living longer we are doing something quite out of the range of the other animals. Thus, homo sapiens leaves his competitors far behind in the race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about...