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Word: crusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crust of the earth. Variations in the earth's gravitational pull will distort the orbit slightly. Thus irregularities in the earth's crust and the slight bulge at the earth's equator can be determined more accurately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Way of a Satellite | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...high, curves downward even more swiftly toward the danger area. For a few seconds it glows like a meteor, trailing a bright streak of flame. Then out of the sea rises a dome of fire 20 miles across. The sea boils as if a volcano had poked through the crust of the earth, and a cloud of radioactive death drifts downwind. An earth wave jangles seismographs in San Francisco, St. Louis, New York, Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missiles Away | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Such Crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

ROBERT L. FINCH President and Top Crust Apple Pie Testers Association Columbus, Ohio

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...earth's climate is affected by interstellar dust and gas that sometimes shut off much of the sun's light. The Ice Ages were caused partly by such shadowing, partly by the slipping of the earth's crust, which shifted now-tropical sections of the earth's surface into the polar regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bold Star Gazer | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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