Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prayers were answered.'' Those menacing black clouds, and the fierce thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones bigger than cherries, played an important role last week in answering the prayers of Councilman Fisher: he and the rest of his Democratic coalition slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked out the nonpartisan Citizens Association Party that had ruled the once corrupt city for 19 healthy years. Citizens Association survivor of the hail-battered election: popular Mayor H. (for Harold) Roe Bartle...
...seems a smooth, bright disk. But astronomers have long known that its face is mottled with hot clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been able to make...
...California, New Mexico, Michigan and Washington, D.C., the Aerobee's photographs give astronomers a sort of three-dimensional picture of the violent energy processes in the sun's atmosphere. Eventually, such rocket photography may become so refined that meteorologists may be able to make daily solar weather reports as a matter of routine to help them predict earth's weather...
Inclement weather has already delayed the opening of the varsity nine's home season until Tuesday, and snowstorms predicted for this week could postpone five more games...
...Crimson's game with M.I.T. was rained out last Saturday, and the contest has been rescheduled for Thursday. If weather permits, the varsity will meet Tufts here Tuesday and engage the Navy nine at Annapolis on Wednesday...