Word: statically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good third of The Song of the World is made up of descriptions of nature; but readers who automatically skip such passages may find their eyes arrested willy-nilly. Nature to Jean Giono is not a static stage-set but a legion of dynamic actors. His trees not only have their individual smells but their own voices; water is hard or soft like a hostile muscle or like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from...
...championing the bill. "When a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning," somewhat daringly observed Lord Dawson, while more than one bishop frowned. "Women are more sex-conscious than of old and demand a more sex-satisfying life. Why should marriage alone remain static...
...major factor in last winter's airplane crashes was radio failure due to snow static. United Air Lines therefore set aside a Boeing laden with instruments and experts which flew almost daily over the mountainous Northwest-an ideal snow-static laboratory. Snow static was supposed to be caused by impact on the antenna of droplets containing tiny electric charges. United last week announced that it is caused by discharge from trailing edges of electricity gathered while flying through heavily charged clouds. When sufficiently severe, snow static affected the shielded loop, heretofore the best-known remedy (TIME...
...That gas, which we assume was present in the top of the ship, was ignited either by lightning or by a static spark. The meteorological situation . . . was such that a greater potential gradient* could not be present at the time of the fire. ... If one studies the wind directions and velocities and temperatures more closely as indicated on the charts, he can recognize that the first storm must have been followed by a smaller...
...addition of a few more States to the tax column would take a sizable chunk of A. & P.'s profits. Long were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME, Nov. 23), the voluntary chain consists of stores owned and operated by independent merchants but serviced...