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Also on Floreana were the Wittmers-contemporaries of the Baroness-a German family who had lived there since 1932. The Wittmers were the island's upper crust: their house had cement flooring. The Conways never rose so high in the social scale, but managed to survive and even enjoy life for four years in a dirt-floored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Like Paradise | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...simple story well told is the wheaten loaf of literature. There are traces of machine-kneading in both these short novels, but the ingredients are honest and the crust is tasty. Anybody who feels a trifle tired of classics, biographies, soothsayers and trash might enjoy either, with a cup of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Short Ones | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...happened before. Mt. Etna was a familiar story to Julius Caesar and Pericles. Even before Homer's day, Sicilians were fleeing from their huts pursued by Etna's lava. Geologists estimate that Etna broke through the earth's crust in the middle Pleistocene period, some 300,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Upstart & Old Timer | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...contributions are not for just "another emergency," or another group of starving people, but for students like ourselves who, possibly even more than we, will be the policy makers, the planners, and the leaders of a world in which we must spend our days. We can think about the crust of bread symbolizing 900 calories a day, but let's think far more intently on whether we are to keep alive this vital force-about the only optimists left alive in Europe or Asia-or let it die, and with its death, let tumble the victory of progress over cruelty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...continents drifted apart, Wegener maintained, they also drifted toward one another on the other side of the globe, pressing into the Pacific. Their Atlantic shores remained much as they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Continents on the Loose | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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