Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Age rolls on toward its lurid future, more & more people are losing their homes because of it. The U.S. Navy was as gentle as possible with the bewildered, evicted natives of Bikini; but the Navy could not explain. The Russian-German authorities in the scenic Erz Gebirge (Ore Mountains) of southern Saxony did not have to explain. The local Germans knew quite well that the Russians were mining pitchblende (uranium ore) as fast as possible, and they knew what...
...American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...
...Newell did not know for sure, but he could make some guesses. Perhaps the ice age which chilled the earth in those remote days eliminated all climatic zones except the frigid and the temperate. Perhaps the earth's poles were in different places then, allowing a temperate zone to curve unbroken all the way from the U.S. to Peru...
...steer him into a commercial career, but succeeded only in drawing him from respectability into the Latin Quarter. He was soon living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...