Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat the droplets differentially. Dr. van Straten solved it with carbon black, which is a fluffy kind of soot whose intensely black particles, about 500.00 in diameter, accumulate radiant heat just like a blacktop road. When these particles are released in a cloud, she reasoned, the water droplets that capture one or more of them should grow warmer by absorbing sunlight, and should lose their moisture by evaporation to droplets that have stayed comparatively cool because they have captured no particles. Then the cool, fattened-up droplets should fall slowly through the cloud, growing gradually bigger by jostling small droplets...
...third son of a Milwaukee grocer of German descent, he showed an early leaning to the priesthood (his sister, a nun, remembers that at the age of five he used to play at saying Mass with a cloth over an old table and a glass of water for the chalice of wine). In his early parish at Waukesha, Wis., and later as bishop of Superior, Wis., Meyer was more noted as an able administrator than as a fighter for causes, has rarely committed himself on social issues...
Machine-tool orders climbed to $23 million in August, v. $21.9 million in July. Appliances were selling at a good clip; manufacturers' sales of refrigerators, freezers, electric ranges and water heaters topped August 1957. Conducting interviews in twelve key fields, the American Management Association found almost all the executives expected 1959 to be a good year, looked for "a steady recovery at a tapering rate...
...Recipe: Pare and core two baking apples and slice into eight wedges each. Sift 1½ cups of flour with 1 tsp. salt, cut in ½ cup shortening. Moisten with 4 or 5 tbs. of cold water. Roll out into 16-in. by 10-in. rectangle and cut into 16 10-in. by 1-in. strips. Wrap one strip around each apple slice. Arrange, without touching sides, in 13-in. by 9-in. by 2-in. baking pan. Brush with ⅓ cup melted butter; sprinkle with ½ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon. Pour ½ cup of water over...
Hose Sorry Now? In Wells Ford, New Zealand, city officials discovered that a new, $160,000 fire station .had complete modern plumbing, no water supply...