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...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...
...stagnation, Earth does not appear to be growing any older. The forces which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted her crust seem to continue with unabated vigor. The planet trembles almost continuously, as some 8,000 earthquakes a year bear witness. Islands sink out of sight in the sea, and new ones emerge. Rain and wind level old mountains; young ones are thrust up on the shoulders of mysterious forces below. Whence comes all this energy...
...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...
Robert's tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert...