Word: crater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where they had stood there was a crater, with two mounds of debris on each side of it. ... Ford climbed on to the debris ... he found that it was made up of an extraordinary texture of brick and plaster rubble . . . pieces of crockery, often unbroken, all made into a homogeneous, tight-pressed pudding...
...Arkansas field was opened in 1906 by a guide named John Huddleston, who found a 2½-carat diamond washed out by rain from a volcanic crater which he had bought (giving a mule as down payment) for farming. Huddleston sold his land to Arkansas Diamond Corp. for $36,000, spent the money in a hurry, is now an old-age pensioner. At that he did better than his successors. Investors in Arkansas Diamond Corp.* and a small competitor that shares the field have sunk several hundred thousand dollars in equipment and operations. Out of the mines thus far have...
...refined ladies plankwalking across a 20-foot bomb crater; and a childishly calm, old and poor woman who, with a broken saucer, sands a newly fallen incendiary bomb...
...energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater, were successful. The Siberian meteorite was perhaps contraterrene, the Arizona meteorite of earthlike matter...
Died. Frank E. Crater, 79, father of famously missing New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater; in Hershey...