Word: clusterings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kitchen tap. To explain rain, he boils water in a coffee pot, compares the steam to clouds, and shows how "rain" will condense on the sides of a glass held over the spout. He demonstrates static electricity with a charged rubber comb, lets it pick up a cluster of cork filings and then release them in a miniature snowstorm the moment they are oppositely charged. Using an infrared ray, he pops pop corn without burning the cellophane container. Last week, Herbert explained the importance of air speed to a pilot, by tying a paper plane to an electric...
Ride into Steel. The town of Pigeon Run, where Ben Fairless was born, was a small cluster of sooty frame houses hard by the hillside coal pits where Fairless' father, David Williams, grubbed out a meager living for his wife and four children. Williams had such a hard time making ends meet that his wife's sister, Sarah Fairless, took five-year-old Ben to live with her in nearby Justus. In the front room of their house by the railroad tracks, her husband, Jacob Fairless, ran a grocery. The couple adopted Ben, and he took their name...
...squadron of jets rumbling in salute overhead, General George C. Kenney, 62, commander of MacArthur's air forces in World War II, took his last review, got some final honors for 34 years of service. Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster to Kenney's Distinguished Service Medal for the past three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall came...
Glittering Chest. When Japan invaded the Philippines, Soriano organized a guerrilla army, was one of General MacArthur's right-hand men (as a full colonel) in recapturing the islands. As a result, he can wear a cluster of decorations (including the Silver Star) on his Reserve officer's uniform. He sends a daily ration of free beer to the Filipino troops fighting in Korea...
...when a glacier blocked its deep canyon and forced it to cut a new channel. The river returned to its old bed after the glacier retreated, but the temporary channel (the Grand Coulee) is still there, a spectacular, steep-walled dry valley that leads to a cluster of level, irrigable plains...