Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Water leaked down on Associate Justice Edward Terry Sanford. who hastily spread a tarpaulin over his office desk and papers. The rotunda was a puddle ankle-deep. In 45 minutes the fire...
...tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that of 170 wells recently drilled, geologists indicated 157. Only 13 were wildcats.-Oklahoma's Charles Newton Gould...
...horizontal scale. Thus the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would be 20 to 30 feet above the level of the lake and 10 to 20 feet above ground. The Palisades of the Hudson would be a foot high. The Grand Canyon would be 250 feet long and ten feet deep. Niagara Falls would be four inches high...
...welldrained, convenient spot, dig a pit 8 ft. square by 9½ ft. deep. Board up the sides with cheap lumber. Dump a layer of coarse gravel on the bottom. Over the hole build a shack with a double plank floor insulated with building paper. When freezing weather arrives pour two to four gallons of water into the pit each day. By the time of spring thaw there will be a block of ice eight feet square by more than six feet thick, on which perishables may be preserved. The ice will not all melt before the autumn freezes come...
Fascinatingly hidden beneath the ocean's surfaces are hills and dales, mountains, canyons, plateaus, plains. Many are known-Telegraph Plateau between Newfoundland and Ireland whereupon 14 of 21 North Atlantic cables lie, Fleming Deep (5½ mi. down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless...