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...which he had been installed to serve his time. The sheer walls were 18 feet high, and this did him no good at all. But he kept jumping. One day last week he tried a bank shot-he hit one wall at an angle, ricocheted upward toward the next, and got over...
...furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process, which blows air upward through molten iron. But U.S. Steel says the new way is much better, producing superior steel from iron that the Bessemer process cannot handle easily. It works so fast that one 30-ton Turbo-Hearth can make more steel in a day than a 225-ton open-hearth furnace...
...most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth to explain that Karen has found God and will now return to live out her life in the fishing village. With the climax reduced to the incomprehensible, nothing much is left of this touted film...
...arid regions like New Mexico, Langmuir explained, big cumulus clouds often rise high in the air without dropping any rain. In such cases, the air does not contain enough natural nuclei (suitable dust particles) for moisture to condense upon. The warm air from over a sun-heated plain boils upward vigorously, but the moisture in it does not condense until the cold upper levels are reached. Then it condenses suddenly into very small ice particles that drift off at about 35,000 feet, leaving the ground dry, its inhabitants disappointed...
Just before the test, somebody warned a Trib man not to stand too close to the window ; it might shatter under the mighty blast. Precisely at noon, a Tower official pulled the lanyard. The whistle momentarily disappeared in a cloud of steam, which coursed upward for five stories. But the sound that came forth was a musical, calliope-like peep, barely audible amid the winds swirling around the Tower. Down on the streets, hardly a Chicagoan turned his head. Reported the undaunted Tribune next day : "A thunderous bellow was emitted from [the whistle's] metal throat...