Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This weird optical system enables the camera to cover a 52° field, taking in one-tenth of the area of the visible sky. Where earlier meteor cameras were blind to any meteor smaller than a marble, the new model will photograph the tracks of meteors as small as buckshot. As soon as a duplicate camera is completed, the meteormen can compare their films and tell by triangulation the distance and altitude of each meteor trail...
History and legend have both been unkind. Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of "painful Kelpius . . . maddest of good men . . . weird as a wizard, over arts forbid." But before the day when he died in his garden at only 35, Kelpius had succeeded in giving his followers something of his vision of a life sustained in its every moment by communion with...
...feathers. Prices flew up to $500 a lb. in 1913, before the inevitable crash. Many an ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires who stuck with his birds. He scrabbled hard to get enough lucerne (alfalfa) for his hungry flock. "Usually they ate and I didn...
...this is not surprising. During the last fortnight his confusion has been built into delirium. Every night at dinner two giant speakers blare weird music at him. It is the music that is distracting his mind. It is the music that is making the milk sours and the spoons disappear. It is a violation of most fundamental human rights to dignity, and peace, and privacy...
...Trio in E flat, for the weird combination of piano, violin, and French horn, is one of the most delightful of Brahms' early creations. The three instruments sound surprisingly well together and the music itself, though-not possessing the vitality and depth of the more mature composer, has many interesting moments...