Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictator Kamâl Atatürk has made a point for years of groaning bitterly about the demilitarized Dardanelles at every crisis in international affairs. Meanwhile he has quietly lined the Straits with solid highways interspersed with concrete "parking spaces" behind earth embankments. Down these roads could roll at a few hours notice heavy tractor field-pieces, to unlimber at the parking spaces and command the Straits. With all this in his favor, Kamâl Atatürk last fortnight felt he could afford to wangle a remilitarized Dardanelles the legal...
...fishing had brought them so little profit in recent years that they were undernourished. At the epidemic's darkest moment, Dr. Greist had 13 dead Eskimos lying in his Presbyterian church waiting until their tribesmen could get together enough wood for coffins, dig graves in the frozen earth...
...exemplifies the finest traditions of science, modesty, resource and valor," Explorer Ellsworth trumpeted: "The most important incident of my trip across Antarctica [TIME, Jan. 27] was the raising of the Stars & Stripes in that territory of 350,000 square miles of vast untamed land, the last unclaimed territory on earth...
...that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more. You got to change crops sometime." As in Miracle at Verdun, this ghastly irregularity spreads panic and consternation through the high command, has repercussions far outside the war zone on Press, Church and Business. However, unlike Playwright Chlumberg, who tried to fix original responsibility...
...modern science estimates the millions of years that have elapsed since the beginning of the universe, the earth and life on the earth will be described by three prominent scientists in the fields of astronomy, geology, and biology in a public "Symposium on Time Scales" at 8 o'clock tonight in the New Lecture Hall...