Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pressures reaching up to 2,000,000 pounds per square inch are being applied to rocks and crystals by David T. Griggs, Junior Follow in Geophysics. in a study of geological forces deep underground. Tests used involve the highest one directional stress ever controlled and measured in laboratory research. High pressure equipment utilized was developed at Harvard by Professor Percy W. Bridgeman...
...death and destruction moved with terrifying suddenness over the lovely island, temporary roadside morgues were set up. Many of St. Lucia's 67,000 inhabitants wailed throughout the night as they waited in long lines to identify members of their families. Others insisted upon going into the deep slime, hoping to rescue imbedded relatives. With hundreds of acres of land destroyed, thousands made homeless, St. Lucia next day counted its casualties: at least 250 dead, many more missing. The British Windward Islands administration, with headquarters at St. George's Grenada, faced its greatest relief problem...
...general report had it that, while Professor Frankfurter was as deep-dyed a liberal as the President could wish for, nevertheless he (the Professor, that is) has a conscience, and the thought of using the sophisticated argument that the Justices were so old they needed six additional associates, was more than he could stomach. Or perhaps the memory of Mr. Justice Holmes, in full possession of his faculties at the age of 91, was too fresh. In any event, Professor Frankfurter did not support the Court packing plan, and the President was deeply wounded...
Most important are the 75 trays of prehistoric tools and implements, which the Burma expedition, sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, and the Peabody Museum, collected in the early part of the year. Advancing along the Irrawaddy River deep into the heart of southern Asia, the expedition opened up entirely new areas for the study of man's early development and has shed much light on the Pleistocene age, which scientists estimate ended several hundred thousand if not half a million years...
Jovial young Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an 85-ton atom smasher at Berkeley, Calif. Intrigued by the Lawrence cyclotron, promoters of the Golden Gate International Exposition asked if they could borrow it to smash atoms for next year's fair. Physicist Lawrence, who was deep in experimentation, pointed to the protective wall of six-foot-high water tanks surrounding the cyclotron, explained that neutrons flying free as hail around an exhibition room might settle in the tissues of spectators, even render them sterile. The exposition officials hastily retired, and last fortnight they hatched plans to exhibit a model...