Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able diplomat, cleverly left open avenues of retreat from The Deal. They professed that the League of Nations was to decide everything. Three days later at Geneva suave Eden, although the whole London Press was printing columns about the Government's "reversal of policy," had the British crust to say officially: "The policy of His Majesty's Government remains unchanged...
...summit of Mt. Washington and 141/2 at Piukham Notch, the skiing should be greatly improved. Latest reports from Hanover say that there are 16 inches of snow around the summit of Mt. Moosliauke, while at Hanover skiing conditions are fair with three inches of snow and a hard crust...
...Winter, sage of the Boston Transcript, reports after making a survey of New England and vicinity that there still is lacking the necessary one foot crust of snow for safe skiing...
Showing that geographical exploration concerns itself with investigating the earth from its crust beneath to the top of the atmosphere, Dr. Stetson said we must advance into these upper regions to discover new facts about the effect of the attraction of the sun and the moor for the earth, and about ultra-violet radiation...
...from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored there until the sub-crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which in turn moves sideways, bulging and rifting ocean floors, allowing heat to escape. Then the cycle begins again. Wegener of Germany proposed that two great continents...