Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus far, observations during eclipses have confirmed Einstein. But the exact amount that a star's light bends has varied from eclipse to eclipse because of changes in the density of the upper atmosphere. This year, the scientists, with their passion for precision, will study the atmosphere right up to its top, with airplanes and radiosonde balloons...
Consternation was widespread among the Faculty and students of the Medical School as a result of the announcement. Lucius J. Lucius, professor of Biology, termed converging "a rare physiological phenomenon among women that I have observed only in isolated cases among the Indians of the upper Amazon region...
...crashing Constantinople's triple walls (in 1453), the townspeople hopefully streamed for their proudest monument, the Church of Saint Sophia, assured by a prophet that the Moslems would never conquer it. "In the space of an hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword in his hand, and would...
...thin, tall Chauffeur Stoppa, is waiting to take him to the Vatican gardens. As the car drives through the various courtyards, gendarme after gendarme bends his knee to the ground and brings his hand to his visor in salute. In the garden, the Pope walks up & down the upper avenues, reading a book or a sheaf of papers. If it rains, he walks in the Passeggiata Coperta (the covered walk...
...although moved by such an experience, one can't overlook the presence of the upper classes in Germany; Americans like their music better when they can sit with a cigarette in one hand and a highball in the other. When I heard Walter Gieseking in Wiesbaden he was in the act of prostituting himself before such an audience. After ham-fisting his way through Debussey, he concluded (either as a culmination of his own bad taste or a reprimand to that of his listeners) with a beer garden style arrangement of Strauss waltz themes...