Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meteorites are the material residue of meteors, which reaches the earth. The largest meteorite actually seen to fall, landed its 547 pounds at Knyahinya, Hungary, in 1866. However, masses have been found weighing up to 50 tons, which have the characteristics of meteorites. A fused crust indicating intense heating in the drop through the air is noticeable on all meteorites. About one-third of the earth's elements have been found in meteorites; most of them resemble stones; a few contain a large percentage of iron ore. Perhaps the most famed meteorite of history was the black, cone-shaped...
...which Author Hughes made venomous reply: To those who objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives...
...Within the Division of Geology the four required courses may be so grouped as to stress any one of three phases of the broad subject; the evolution of the earth and its inhabitants; the nature and origin of rock formations, including ore and valuable constituents of the earth's crust; and the physical environment of life, including climate. Under such conditions concentration in geology coupled of course with the distribution of studies now required, offers an excellent training for citizenship and practical life in general...
Southward from Tokyo to the sea, railway tracks writhed and telegraph poles came reeling down as the earth crust moved and slithered. With all communications cut, soaring airplanes could only report that at Osaka, second largest city of Japan, fires had broken out, and that Kobe, third city, biggest port, was in confusion. Reputedly, the Amarubes Bridge, longest railway bridge in the Far East, had shaken down...
...Locandiera. Goldoni's "classical" 18th century Italian comedy is sandwiched in between the more substantial fare of tragic offerings ordinarily provided at the Civic Repertory Theatre.* La Locandiera, the Mistress of the Inn (Eva Le Gallienne) breaks through the crust of a woman-hater, the cavalier Ripafratta, finds him quite soft inside, then jilts him and marries her headwaiter. An old play, it is presented with all its venerable tokens of age (soliloquies, asides, good and evil characters) yet not subjected to the snickers of sophisticated production...