Word: coring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Williams, flying the Transcontinental & Western Air route 50 mi. west of Albuquerque. N. Mex., saw the whole sky suddenly illuminated "as if someone had turned on a great blue electric light." A core of blue brilliance seemed to rush toward him from a high altitude about 300 mi. away. The brilliance lasted eight or ten seconds, then broke into two clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs...
...toothed grin is familiar to all Pennsylvania's 115,000 employes. When at home (which is seldom) he lives simply in Radnor outside Philadelphia. He claims that his house is so furnished that he can put his feet up whenever he sits down. A railroad man to the core, he has only one automobile, a Cadillac which he turns in every August for a new model. His two younger sons take to railroading, but his eldest is determined to be a singer. Railroader Atterbury once remarked: "If you become the greatest musician in the world, what...
...Boston Garden Wednesday afternoon. In the second game of the day the Junior Varsity team had little difficulty with a weak Governor Dummer sextet, blanking them 4-0. In the Freshman game Exeter opened the scoring after seven minutes of play, four minutes later the Freshmen tied the core, and in the last period tied the score and in the last period put two more shots into...
...Congress: He is a vehement individualist, voting his own convictions, following no one. leading no one. The Western insurgents can count on him no more than can the Old Guard. He plumes himself on his Progressivism, yet he is narrowly nationalistic to the core. When he entered the Senate he promptly enlisted in the "Battalion of Death" against the Versailles Treaty. Because like many another Californian he hates & fears Japan, he believes in the biggest possible Navy for the U. S. and therefore fought the London Naval Treaty (1930) almost singlehanded. He dislikes all foreign powers, suspects them of sinister...
...rocks on the weathered surface it was possible for Professor Reginald Aid-worth Daly (Harvard) to estimate the Earth's outer crust as 40 mi. thick in continental areas (thicker under seas); the next shell 1,800 mi. thick, composed of glassy rock more rigid than steel; the core a ball of molten iron 7,000 mi. in diameter, under 15 to 50 million pounds pressure per square inch...