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...student in Professor Stewart's party, observing from a plane at 9,000 feet, noticed an effect never seen before: a 15-mile-wide trail of condensed water vapor in the moon's shadow, apparently resulting from the sudden cooling of the earth's atmosphere. In England, physicists used radar to observe stratospheric electrical effects...
...Vapors. While Dr. Chang does not deny the existence of microbes, he operates on the basis of chi (vapors)-spring, summer, autumn and winter vapors which may enter the body and produce changes. A stomachache is often merely too much chi in the belly. For this Dr. Chang occasionally prescribes sneezing powder which releases the pressure pain from the stomach. The theory is the same as lifting the lid of a spouting tea kettle to release steam. After Western laxatives had failed to relieve a certain Cabinet member, Dr. Chang prescribed a herb to "heat the vapor of the spleen...
...explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...
...second time, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher took the famed fast carrier Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around Tokyo. This time coordination with Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay's 21st Bomber Command was closer: hot on the vapor trails of Mitscher's planes came more than 200 B-29s with more than 1,000 tons of bombs to batter the Tokyo area and secondary targets, further isolating the battlefield...
...Peace. His large hands firm on the podium, his breath turning to vapor in the raw winter wind, Franklin Roosevelt then delivered his shortest inaugural speech (573 words). It would probably never be considered a great speech, but it indicated the President's mood and temper. There was no reference to domestic affairs, nothing but a passing remark on the war. The President's thoughts that day were on the kind of world that will follow the peace...