Word: vernon
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Physicist Vernon Rossow likens a tornado to the rotor of an electrostatic motor, which turns as it transfers electric charges between a positive and a negative electrode. Much the same happens, he theorizes, when a region of positively charged water droplets form near another region of negatively charged droplets in storm clouds...
...small cities of Westchester County, Yonkers, New Rochelle, and Mount Vernon, are all of the same mold: a squalid down-town section section with a store that sells foam rubber, another that sells lamps, another with candy and on and on. Most of the people on the streets are Negro, poor. The streets are often crowded with cars as the road system has not kept pace with the increase in population. This is not expensive, nubile Westchester. That is off in Larchmont and Scarsdale. Republican bailiwicks as secure as Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Even if O'Connor were vastly imaginative...
...ultimate expression of the Arden philosophy that "modern beauty is not a veneer of makeup, but intelligent cooperation with nature to develop a woman's finest natural assets" could be found at her two "Maine Chance" farms. She opened the original in Mount Vernon, Me., in 1934, followed up in 1947 with a second in Phoenix. Described as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," they prescribed a regimen of exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been...
When the SMA takes on all comers, as at an A.M.A. convention, it turns up a surprising number of previously undiagnosed abnormalities. Dr. Vernon...
Lowell Inn, Stillwater, Minn. Owner Mrs. Nelle Palmer considers her antique-laden inn "the Mount Vernon of the West." Diners know that the trout are fresh because they pick them from a pool...