Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anybody who had seen the winter wheat knew a few weeks ago that this would be a fine crop-if all went well. There had been grave doubts, two months ago. Kansas, Oklahoma and the flat Texas Panhandle had had a long dry spell, even an ominous dust storm. But in mid-February Nature had relented, and over most of the great winter wheat belt had come gentle sizzle-sozzle rains. In most of Kansas and Oklahoma, the wheat was now high enough to hide a bounding jack rabbit...
...Taste of the '70s." It includes a few good things (notably Frans Hals's Malle Babbe-Crazy Barbara, the Witch of Haarlem), coachloads of coyly draped marbles and candy-box oils. Most popular picture, rescued from the cellar for the occasion, was Pierre Cot's frothy Storm. Judging by reproduction sales in its heyday, Storm came close to being the Met's most popular picture of all time...
Swarming through the pile in billions of billions, these neutrons stir up a storm of unrest among the atoms of every element in it. Some are turned into atoms of different chemical elements, some into different isotopes of the same element. Nearly all are "hot," shooting out rays and energy. Every element is made radioactive...
When a thoroughgoing magnetic storm gets rolling, there is the devil to pay. Radio and telegraph communications get out of kilter, navigation devices turn unreliable. The reason: great gusts of electrons, blasted loose from the sun by cyclonic sunspots, are overcharging the ionosphere. Effects of this high-level ionization are visible to the human eye in the aurora borealis, seen last fortnight as far south as New York and in Britain's Channel Islands...
Vague rumors of the General Education Committee's celebrated report have spread everywhere. But only in the confines of the College can its vital significance yet be even partially realized. Plans are under way for introduction of totally new courses conceived and planned in a storm of publicity. Men of letters expound the General Education Report much as the learned theologian quotes the Bible in seeking guidance. Yet one wonders whether, when all the shouting dies, the same professors, with their same limitations, will not be giving much the same courses...