Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amazon region is tough to explore on the surface, and almost unknown geologically. But both the Amazon and the towering Andes were covered some 200 million years ago by the same shallow sea. An unexplained disturbance wrinkled the earth's crust. The western part of the sea bottom was lifted high in the air, where its sedimentary strata lie exposed today. The rest (toward the east) is still deeply buried under the tangled jungle...
While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
...imagination went to work on the peasant life he knew, shaping it into raw-toned, spaciously planned pictures that were quickly acclaimed by Rio's intellectuals. Soon even Brazil's granfinos (upper crust), who disliked his serious works ("He paints big feet, he paints Negroes, he imitates Diego Rivera"), were commissioning him to paint their portraits, and Portinari obligingly turned out slick & sound conventional likenesses in the best School of Fine Arts manner. He made good money painting portraits of Helena Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein...
...liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...
...Braintrusters. The men who sweat for the armed forces over the answer to that question are the top crust of their profession: men like the Air Forces' Major General Lauris Norstad, the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman, the Army's braintruster, 39-year-old Brigadier General George A. Lincoln, head of the Army's strategy and policy team. Their answer is a whopper...