Word: crusting
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...about-town review and amusement guide (price 10?) aimed at the mass of subway riders who read Broadway colyumists but not the smart New Yorker. Some of its features, dealing with expensive speakeasies and night clubs, indicate an intent to show Manhattan's probable clientele how the upper crust amuses itself...
...Earth's volume, 99.9% "must forever remain invisible and untouchable." Yet from the indirect evidence of earthquakes, volcanoes, mines, oil wells, igneous 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...
...thin crust is elastic, yields to strains and stresses. Places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are 800 ft. higher than they were 30,000 years ago when the Wisconsin Glacier pressed down upon New England. When the glacier melted the land sprang back to normal elevation. Another 100,000 years must pass before a similar glacier could descend upon & depress the region-Irving Bollard Crosby (Boston), Richard J. Lougee (Columbia...
...McLean-owned Enquirer was polite about it; the Taft-owned Times-Star, less so. But here was a chance for the Scripps-Howard Post to demonstrate its boasted disrespect for the upper crust. The Post splashed a conversation between its city editor and Dr. L. W. Scott Alter, treasurer of the Union...
...enough water to cover. Measure liquid used. Cover closely and cook in a slow oven of 350° F. for two hours. For every cupful of liquid used stir in one tbsp. flour mixed in an equal amount of cold water. Cook 15 min. longer. A baking powder biscuit crust may be put on the casserole after the thickening is added. If this is done, raise the temperature to 450° F. for about 15 min. to bake the crust. Serves...