Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such depths, or deeper, Dr. Shapley would have his plutonic laboratories. Ph. D. moles would record the pulsations of the earth's crust which, according to one theory, is as rigid as steel and as elas- tic, rather than viscous, like stiff pitch. They would verify the hypothesized drift of North America from Europe and South America from Africa. (As can be seen on a globe, the continents would roughly fit together.) Such scientific gnomes might be able to determine the existence of an interstellar ether. They could certainly measure the relation of earth heat to earth depth. They...
...survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors are to be huge round bobbins which will dig into red clay of the submerged plateau...
...warehouses and a squalid village on the muddy banks of the River Hoogly. Thus was founded the City of Calcutta. It was a wise location. The village grew, became "The City of Palaces." Last week engineers began to sink drills and explore the substrata of the Hoogly to a depth of 100 feet. Soon a subway will burrow under, connecting the quarters of Howrah and Sealdah. Proud Indians know that today only two cities in the British Commonwealth have subways: London and Sydney...
Near Coon Butte, Ariz., is a mysterious pit nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
Comparing Authors Renn and Remarque, most readers will decide that, despite their obvious similarity, Author Renn, thicker-skinned through a blind patriotism, has not the subjective depth of Author Remarque. In comparison, War will seem psychologically shallow, less moving...