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Word: glowingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...them best, one should be away from bright lights, with a full view of the sky. The fireworks will start about 9 p.m. Moon glow will be at a minimum as the moon is just entering its first quarter. Toward midnight, when the meteors are at their best, it will be out of sight, over the horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Shower of Meteors Expected By Astronomers | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

Whipple estimates that 30 tons of dust are pulled from comets every second. One ton per second would be enough to maintain the zodiacal glow indefinitely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whipple Reports Twilight Theory | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

Fred L. Whipple, Professor of Astronomy, last Sunday announced a new theory on the twilight glow that appears after subset. Whipple attributed the so called zodiacal light to particles of cosmic dust in space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whipple Reports Twilight Theory | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

Reporting to the Observatory's Visiting Committee, Whipple said the glow occurs when icy surfaces of the particles are vaporized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whipple Reports Twilight Theory | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

...Shadow, and an ear-shattering collection of other thrillers kept on blasting through millions of loudspeakers; the announcer's thrilling command-"Ask mother nOw!"-echoed louder than ever. Fancier and more complicated box-top premiums (Planetary Maps, Atomic Bomb Rings, Magni-glow Writing Rings, Detective Badges, Compass-Magnifying Glasses, Explorer's Sun Watches) came flooding through the mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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