Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only powerhouse with which Colin Wilson has been visibly connected is the reading room of the British Museum. The obsessive idea he picked up there belonged to a previous chair-warmer at the same establishment, Bernard Shaw. It is that the Life Force makes everything make sense. Presumably this is the sense, if any, of Wilson's conclusion: "If life did not pervade space and time, the universe of matter would be tohubohu, complete chaos." As for the present state of Colin Wilson's mind and thought-tohu-bohu...
...breeze had not yet risen. The harbor was as smooth as a looking-glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand flowers...
...Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie's most widely distributed native pundit: "It is sad, remembering how he has been loved in the South, to sense the 'never, never,' the totality...
...tracing narrow roads through heavy forests. Military vehicles are hard to hide: a tank that has turned off a road to take cover under thick foliage sends heat waves that strike through the leaves, telling just where it is. Rivers show clearly : at night their surface water is generally warmer than the leaves of vegetation on their banks. Boats leave conspicuous wakes by mixing warm surface water with colder water from below...
...were made by some sort of scanning technique. Servo says that its instruments take their pictures on ordinary photographic film, first translating the heat image into a light image. If necessary, the instruments can be made sensitive to very small differences of temperature. An object that is one degree warmer or colder than its environment is detectable under field conditions. In the laboratory much smaller contrasts are sufficient. A woman's legs photograph bright because her stockings are transparent to heat from her skin. Her girdle shows faintly under her skirt because it is in close contact with body...