Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the Navy is not discussing its plans for the Neptune. It will be useful, suggested one Navy spokesman, for probing the upper atmosphere. If war comes, presumably the Navy will consider arming its peaceful Neptune with a warhead...
...suggested calling for a relief pitcher, but DeRose shook his head and kept going. He threw exactly 93 pitches and did not allow a man to reach first base. It was the first perfect game in the history of the American Association, and the first in baseball's upper layers since Charley Robertson pitched a perfect game for the Chicago White...
...barrier" makes itself felt, jamming an airplane's controls, destroying the lift of its wings. The P-80R got up to Mach .81 last week over the hot, sun-baked desert. If it had flown at 20,000 ft., it would have met less resistance from the thin upper air but it might have run into "compressibility effects" when it came too close to the cold-slowed speed of sound...
Weather experts say the unusual weather in 1816 was caused by great volcanic eruptions from 1811 through 1815 which supposedly exploded so much dust and ashes into the upper atmosphere that the warmth of the sun's rays was seriously diminished...
...that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist Suehiro Nishio, is a former steel worker...