Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep underwater; the general level of the Mediterranean has risen only a fraction of an inch since glacial times. Gargallo hopes that his underwater ruins may hold the answer to some Etruscan mysteries. "Water," he says, "is destructive, but it can also preserve. Mud gives protection from time, weather and greedy hands. If the sea bottom is undisturbed, some relics last almost indefinitely...
...keep up with orders for layers. He puts the eggs in special incubators that vastly improve on the maternal solicitude of real hens. A hen often forgets to turn her eggs (causing the membrane lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns that the relative humidity is too low. shoots in a fine spray of water. Durr staggers the eggs, in each incubator, because from the 16th day until...
...hourly shower baths, meticulous regulation of the temperature, humidity and even the air movement around them for each day of their lives, Purdue's hogs grow on less feed, gain 1¾ Ibs. per day, compared to 1½ Ibs. for hogs forced to put up with natural weather...
Cambridge is, for all its brick sidewalks and miserable weather, an unfortunately American town. An outdoor cafe could dull the red-brick austerity and usher in spring with langorous and graceful living...
South Bend, Ind. last week was in the throes of one of the worst winters in its history, yet hardly anyone talked about the weather. "With all these Larks around," said Studebaker-Packard's President Harold E. Churchill, "it's been like spring." Production of the Lark was up to 4,300 cars a week; total production for 1959 so far (61,000) was 12,000 ahead of the entire 1958 model year...