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...saucers vary widely. Some are hazy globes; some are bright lights. Some are cigar-shaped, wingless "airplanes"; others are spinning disks. Some of the saucers fly singly; others in formation. They fly both by day and by night; they zigzag abruptly. It is obvious, concluded Menzel, that no single type of object, such as a novel aircraft, can be behind all the stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...along "about every 2,000 years." Reporters found that Lawsonomy was sweepingly billed as "the study of everything," based on 47 principles set forth in the dozens of books of which Lawson is the author. All life, according to Lawsonomy, operates according to the laws of "maneuverability, penetrability, and zigzag-and-swirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Zigzag & Swirl | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Cabbages and Kings, by O. Henry (Dec. 17, 1904): "There are times when the story puzzles in its zigzag course . . . but as it is one finds a joy in its very obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Verdicts of the Times | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...fruits of the earth. Grouped around the cornstalk are eight gods and goddesses gathering healing pollen. On the north are the roundheaded earth gods, black and red, with white-coated, oblong-headed goddesses. On the south are blue and yellow water gods, with goddesses. Each god is laced with zigzag lightning, haloed with plumes of the red-tailed woodpecker, and armed with a bow and rattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MAGIC IN SAND | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...Franklin C. Hurlbut. First, all possible air is pumped from the stainless steel tube (which takes a week of pumping). At one end of the tube is a small "source chamber" containing nitrogen gas. When this is heated by a furnace, the nitrogen molecules pick up kinetic energy and zigzag through the chamber at great speed. Those that happen to be shooting in the right direction pass through a hole one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter that leads to the evacuated tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Frontier of Space | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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