Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as they did 22 years ago when freezing weather slicked the field for the championship playoff with the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants traded their cleated football shoes for rubber-soled sneakers. And just as they did in 1934, the Giants ran off with the National Football League title. The bruising New York defense kept the Bears at bay; on offense just about every Giant was a star. Scoring on runs, passes, field goals and a blocked kick, the Giants...
...done, if only as a historical document." The document was crudely etched. Because both funds and the spare time of modern scientists were at a premium, there were few rehearsals and few retakes. Budgetary corners were sharply cut, e.g., when Seaborg asked for a relief globe he got a weather balloon, and when that burst, made do with a beach ball. But the producers and performers in The Elements were not haunted by the limitations of commercial TV, and therefore were able to build their shows on the conception that their viewers would look because they wanted to be taught...
...After Dr. Urquhart's wife wrote a nontechnical article in the American Museum of Natural History's magazine Natural History, eager volunteers came forward, and butterfly-tagging started on a continent-wide scale. Again, failure. It soon became apparent that the labels were not sticking in wet weather...
...have been found. Some butterflies tagged in Ontario got all the way to Texas and the Gulf Coast. Dr. Urquhart points out that several generations of Monarchs live and die each summer in northern regions, feeding principally on milkweed. Then the generation that is adult when cold weather approaches flies south to spend the winter. Since Monarchs do not breed in the south, the same butterflies move north again in spring...
Bulletin. In Wichita, Kans., after twelve months of only scattered rains, drought-conscious U.S. Weather Bureau Meteorologist Fred Wells looked out the window, teletyped: "NOW HEAR THIS...