Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears that about twelve miles up there is a rich mixture of primary rays and of secondary rays created by collisions between the primaries and air molecules. Above that height the air is so thin (i.e., molecular targets are so few) that the secondary radiation falls off. Below twelve miles the total intensity also declines because more & more of the primaries are absorbed by atmospheric resistance...
...Elmer Gantry when he was a thoroughbred yearling on a southwestern Nebraska ranch. She tried to buy him, failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained as a race horse, cow pony, hurdler, show horse, triple-bar exhibition jumper...
...injury, suffered in the Army game, would keep him on the bench for a second week-end but yesterday Glueck proved his fitness by taking contact work with the rest of the A team, Nevertheless, if he does start against the orange and black Tigers, his invulnerability is so thin that Bill Coleman will probably see a good part of the game...
Distance events are fairly well taken care of by cross-country men, and the sprinters and jumpers are average or better for a fall turnout. Competition in the hurdles is a little thin, but Jaako is counting on Yardling football and soccer players to make up the deficit...
...sedate British journal Nature a reputable scientist last week made a fantastic proposal-to create artificial auroras or "northern lights" in the thin upper atmosphere by means of radio beams sent up from Earth. The proponent was Physics Professor V.A. Bailey of the University of Sydney, Australia...