Word: stetson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STETSON Detroit, Mich...
...Reader Stetson's statement is correct; TIME'S also correct but confusing...
...Denver, last week, a towering, stoop-shouldered, stub-bearded old Scotsman pushed back his chair from behind an ancient rolltop desk, clapped on his battered Stetson at a rakish angle, and ambled through the door. Lord Ogilvy, 79, ace feature writer on the Denver Post for the last 30 years, started down the street...
...sound in wind & limb, a hickory conservative who does not represent the Old South of magnolias, hoopskirts, pillared verandas, but the New South: moneymaking, industrial, hardboiled, still expanding too rapidly to brood over social problems. He stands for oil derricks, sheriffs who use airplanes, prairie skyscrapers, mechanized farms, $100 Stetson hats. Conservative John Garner appeals to many a conservative voter...
...their particle beams unevenly. The earth may therefore suffer severely from relatively small sunspots if it happens to be in a dense region of the particle beam. Moreover, as the spot cycle wanes, the spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time its axis is about perpendicular to the sun. Thus the bombardment was broadside...