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...troughs of low pressure, plus the movement of the high-pressure center out over the Gulf of Mexico, did it. The troughs converged on the U.S. from the Atlantic and the Pacific. The eastern trough let in warm, moist Atlantic air; its western partner opened a path for moisture-laden air masses from the Gulf. Meeting colder air from the Pacific and Canada, the warm, moist air masses condensed and fell to earth as rain...
...maker of wallpaper, will put on sale this month a plastic-coated paper that can be hung in a jiffy without fuss or mess. Birge's washable Quick Wall Covering is coated with a substance which thickens and becomes adhesive when the paper is soaked in a trough of water for a few seconds. Seams are easier to fit because of electronically cut edges. Price: $1.19 to $1.98 a roll...
...Commission laboratories, directed by Dr. W. W. Jetter of the Boston University Medical School. His basic tool in these experiments was a device known as the "Skinner Box." This is a small, cubby-hole sort of enclosure, in which the dog is placed. Inside the box are a feeding trough, a metal lever, and several electrical appliances, such as lights, buzzers, and horns that can be regulated from the outside. When the box is closed, it provides a perfectly controlled environment, by which the experimenter can test a particular segment of the dog's behavior...
Students were alarmed when a shower of sparks erupted from the crucible's top, but Rochow calmly knocked the plug out of the bottom with a long rod and the molten steel flowed into a trough...
...Santayana, even a momentous East-West clash would be foam in the trough of history's innumerable waves. He has no chummy predisposition to back the U.S. team. Aristocratic, contemplative, traditional, he is separated from the America he left in 1912 by a wider gulf than the Atlantic. Occasionally his biases flash...