Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winter air high above the North Pole should be the coldest part of the atmosphere. But rocket soundings have shown that 50 miles above the pole, the air is warmer in winter ( - 38° C.) than in summer ( - 100° C.). In fact, the pole's winter air at this altitude is warmer than that over New Mexico in midsummer (75° C.). Last week Dr. Will Kellogg of Rand Corp. told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Geophysical Union that this paradoxical warmth comes from the recombination of broken oxygen molecules...
...Queens College and one of the best of contemporary twelve-tone composers. The works included his Two Studies for Violin and Piano, Five Fragments by Sappho for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone. Most of the music was in Dallapiccola's characteristic style-lyrical but contorted, warmer than the twelve-tone music of the Viennese School, expert in its blending of small instrumental combinations with the solo voice. Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soeder-stroem sang the Five Fragments with clarity and elegance. Another standout: the second of the Two Studies, a vigorous fugue studded with complex but exhilarating...
...dusk fell over northern Europe, the icy winds died down and weather forecasters predicted warmer air from the south would bring relief to Scotland Thursday. In the southeast, Austria braced for a cold wave after two sunny days...