Word: corale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless South American species of coral snake...
Last week Promoter Stolkin turned up in Florida, this time touting real estate. He bought 3,200 acres of pastureland, named it Coral City and painted a rosy word picture of a proposed metropolis of some 40,000 citizens. To Florida's perennial optimists Stolkin announced that he will sell his houses at cost ($7,025 to $8,600). His profit, if any, will come from the lots, from the office buildings and shops he plans to build, and from the water and sewerage companies he will run. Said Promoter Stolkin: "The financial policy behind Coral City...
Alibi. In Coral Gables, Fla., when Beverly Talley identified Robert G. Tardif as the man who was peeping in her windows, Tardif indignantly retorted: "She couldn't identify me. She was in the closet...
...latest American Journal of Science, F. Stearns MacNeil of the U.S. Geological Survey adds up the old clues to get a new theory: the rings were formed on dry land and later sank below the sea. He believes that coral and other sea organisms, growing on a shallow bottom, will build up a flat-topped reef (like many that exist today). In some cases, he says, such reefs were raised above the water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving...
...soft coral of the rim, by alternate solution and recrystallization, was "casehardened" into solid rock that eventually stood in a high wall around most of the island. Then after the once-flat coral reef had eroded into a saucer, MacNeil believes, the sea rose again and flooded the low center. When the sea rose high enough, more coral grew on the high rim, building it up and forming the familiar shape of an atoll...