Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental drift was reported by U.S. and Brazilian geologists. Their principal finding was that two highly distinctive adjacent geological areas on the Atlantic coast of Africa match perfectly with a pair of rock regions located along Brazil's northeast coast...
...dated as 550 million years old. West of it is the 2-billion-year-old Eburnean area. According to Bullard, if the South American bulge had once fitted under the bulge of Africa, the continuance of the delineation between the two rock regions would be found running southwest through Brazil from a point near the city of Sao Luis 2,070 miles north...
...plot these samples, the correlation was astounding. They all fitted exactly." In addition to the identical ages of the regions, Hurley, his M.I.T. associates and their collaborators at the University of Sao Paulo found the boundary line between the 550-million-and 2-billion-year-old areas in northeast Brazil exactly where they had predicted it would...
...their own tract of land (Blackistan? Negronia?) to what a writer in Manhattan's Vil lage Voice calls "the copulative approach," aimed at complete elimination of racial differences through intermarriage (though if Brazil and the Philippines are any measure, subtle new discriminations would arise based on how much cafe one inherited and how much laif). Harlem Black Nationalist James Lawson even demands "reparations" amounting to $7,000 for every black person in America...
Harvard's opponents in the heat were Argentina and the highly-touted Canadian crew from the University of British Columbia. The Canadians, who captured the Gold Medal at the Pan-American games four years ago in Brazil, finished more than a length behind the Crimson last night...