Word: crust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several hypotheses are being considered to explain the phenomena which may be due to a combination of causes. Theoretically a small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct...
President Coolidge: "I don't like this pie. Get me one with crust...
Waiter Brown looked puzzled as he went back to the kitchen of the dining car. As everyone knows, including Calvin Coolidge, pumpkin pie never has a top crust. Waiter Brown conferred with the chef. Soon he returned with another piece of pumpkin pie. Mrs. Coolidge was smiling...
Waiter Brown: "Here is one with jest a little more brown on top. The pies with crust on 'em were ate by the Secret Service...
...Leonide Kulik, Russian scientist who risked his life to look a little longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...