Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiery Mop-Up. These immediate effects, the AEC pointed out, would be only the beginning. Through the wrecked or damaged buildings-littered with splintered timbers, furniture, papers and merchandise-fire would spring up and spread. Fire-fighting equipment would be trapped in demolished firehouses or hampered by rubble-choked streets...
When a cosmic ray (an electrically charged particle from outer space) approaches the earth, it is deflected by the earth's magnetic field. If it is speeding fast enough, it slams through this interference and plunges into the atmosphere. The most powerful particles, whose speed gives them an energy...
Dr. Pomerantz figured that near the north magnetic pole in northeastern Canada the earth's magnetic field is so feeble that even the most sluggish rays should make the grade. He also reasoned that if he could find rays so feeble that they could not theoretically get through the...
With the backing of the National Geographic Society and the help of the Defense Research Board of Canada, Dr. Pomerantz launched high-flying balloons from Churchill on Hudson Bay. At this point of feeble earth magnetism, Geiger counters attached to the balloons found what Dr. Pomerantz was looking for: cosmic...
Director Nicholas (Knock on Any Door) Ray has succeeded in breathing some new life into his hackneyed plot. An escaped lifer (Farley Granger) and his girl (Cathy O'Donnell) hopelessly try to filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good...