Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milk rain from these reluctant clouds, said Langmuir, is to seed the air with particles of silver iodide, on which moisture condenses easily. When enough nuclei are present, snowflakes form on them at a comparatively low level. This condensation releases heat, which makes the air rise faster. The resulting turbulence tears the snowflakes apart. The fragments grow into larger flakes, releasing still more heat. The meteorological "chain reaction" turns the cloud into a violent thunderstorm that dashes torrents of rain on the ground below...
Next day, in dark suits, white bow ties and black gowns, the culprits would present themselves at the proctorial office in Broad Street for punishment-anything from a small fine to "rustication" (suspension) for breaking one of the university's oldest laws...
...company expects lower profits per ton this quarter than in the first nine months of 1949. As for dividends, said he, over the past 27 years they have averaged only 1.6% of the asset value of J. & L. stock. To give stockholders a fair return of 8% under present tax allowances for depreciation, Moreell figures that J. & L. would have to boost prices another $17 a ton. (He told newsmen later that he was not thinking of raising prices at the moment, but "just as soon as competition will permit it, damned if I'm not going...
...basic idea of The Cannibal, to present German life from the nightmarish viewpoint of a new Führer, is a good one, though Author Hawkes often mars it by long patches that are obscure in meaning and wild in language. Yet for all its fantasy and its irritating excesses, The Cannibal does sometimes approximate the flavor of postwar German life...
...libraries considering the project have more than 1,000,000 volumes. Cornell's and Pennsylvania's collections are so cramped that new buildings are already on their way. Yale and Columbia are running short on space, but have enough for at least two or three years' growth at the present rate...