Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astronomers used to think that only good-sized meteorites reach the earth intact, while the smaller ones "burn" to vapor on passing through the atmosphere. But Dr. H. E. Landsberg at the U.S. Weather Bureau had another idea. He smeared some microscope slides with glycerin and exposed them on a mountaintop just before a shower of "Giacobinid" meteors* was expected. Before and during the shower, he caught nothing unusual. But for many days after the shower he caught highly magnetic particles unlike anything found in normal dust-catches...
Twenty-five student "extras" waited on the weather for an hour and a half yesterday morning before Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer finally decided that the sky was too cloudy for the first day's shooting of "Mystery Street." Weather permitting, the Yard scenes of the MGM crime drama will be shot today...
...This New England weather is too much for me," Taylor also said after yesterday morning's unsuccessful attempt to start work. Accordingly, last night he took a plane back to Hollywood...
...rolling heartland of the U.S., the corn stood brown and brittle in the bright October weather. Farmers tinkered over their mechanical pickers. It was harvest time, and some had started bringing in what early forecasts had predicted would be the second largest corn crop in U.S. history...
...must not be taken as representing the considered policy of the Conservative Party." But Churchill specifically rejected only one of Beaverbrook's points-the minimum wage. Despite past political differences, it looked as if Churchill and The Beaver might be allies again in the stormy election weather that lay ahead...