Word: threading
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...noticed that an extremely bright, fiery thread extended backward from the main mass before it spread out into the gaseous brilliantly shaded tail, which may have been between 50 and 100 miles long." One million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between...
...accompanying feature, "Tonight is Ours" demonstrates again that the team of Colbert and March can cope successfully with most discouraging material. As in the "Son-Daughter" the call of patriotism breaks the thread of true love, but this time the outcome is comic. The plot is, of course, impossible; but that is inconsequential. For the lovelorn there is much gush; for the cynical there is a dash of Noel Coward's sophistication; for the ladies there is always the Colbert wardrobe...
Girl cleaners in a Brooklyn pants factory are paid ½? for each garment they thread and sponge-a 5-min. operation. Their income: 6? per hour, $2.78 per week...
...only because the views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds, but because his appearance was followed by the relapse in civilization which we call the Dark Ages, from which we are only just emerging sufficiently to begin to pick up the thread of Christ's most advanced thought and rescue it from the mess the apostles and their successors made...
...reach. Drums shaped like picturesque vases, stringed instruments with necks almost as fat as their queer little bodies, gongs as bright as gold-pieces and serpentine horns made the music for Shankar to dance to. It was delicate, highly refined music for the most part which, with its single thread of melody, might have sounded monotonous to Occidental ears but for the drummers tapping and slapping a swift, intricate counterpoint, and for Shankar...