Word: colder
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chamber in operation, the felt under its cover is saturated with methyl (wood) alcohol. The alcohol vapor diffuses downward, becoming colder as it approaches the dry ice at the bottom. At some point in its downward motion it makes the air supersaturated. In this sensitive layer, cosmic rays or other fast-moving atomic particles leave trails that show up in a flashlight beam as brilliant white streaks...
...study of these records gives clues about the high atmosphere. The waves that make the 160-mile jump experience various vicissitudes. In the warm air near the earth they move fast. Then they slow down gradually as the air grows colder. Passing through the stratosphere (temp. - 70° F.) they hit a warmer layer of air 30 to 35 miles above the earth which turns them back down to the microphones...
...engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured the U.S. in the "Bjoerling Male Quartet" with his father and two brothers; while they were singing in Manhattan, the father bought four tickets...