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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1949
Page
6
The atomic clock, claimed accurate within a second per year, is shown in Washington. It uses constant ammonia molecule vibrations to govern time, promising improvements in astronomy, navigation, communications, surveying, and radar. A tiny quartz crystal drives the mechanism.
A garbled excerpt mentions an acre from a 209 foot square, a barked owl diet of crayfish and fish, and lists foods for African and Indian owls. It cites the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and a messy line about injuries in 1948, then notes a Chinese republic outside Nanking gates and an elephant’s silent jungle gait at 18 miles per hour.
The young opossums are born undeveloped and stay in their mother's pouch for about two months after birth. A comparison notes a wife joking about an apparent personal flaw. The text also claims eggs left in an arm store or kitchen lose freshness as quickly as those stored for weeks in a refrigerator.
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