Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic winter, says Dr. Siple, the high interior of Antarctica becomes extremely cold. Its heavy, cold air flows down the sloping trough like water running down...
...France, where inconstancy is a constant, republics, dictatorships, monarchies and empires have gone with the wind. But whatever else goes, the Folies-Bergère remains. The Folies, a pleasure dome dedicated principally to the delights of the eye, is probably the world's most famed theater. Its fame rests securely on a basic theatrical principle, viz., if men like anything better than a shapely show girl in satins and sequins, it is a shapely show girl oujt of them. The Folies supplies both...
...swift object rises steeply from the Kamchatka Peninsula. It soars into space on a curve 500 miles high, curves downward even more swiftly toward the danger area. For a few seconds it glows like a meteor, trailing a bright streak of flame. Then out of the sea rises a dome of fire 20 miles across. The sea boils as if a volcano had poked through the crust of the earth, and a cloud of radioactive death drifts downwind. An earth wave jangles seismographs in San Francisco, St. Louis, New York, Madrid...
...public buildings, $75 million for roads and bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
...will run very deep. When the New York governor began to loom as a presidential prospect, Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender cried: "Talk about giveaways; Harriman would go Eisenhower. Truman and Roosevelt one better. He would give away the Indian chief on top of the Capitol dome...