Word: echoeing
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...wolflike howls of Huskies still echo through northern hamlets in the long nights. Yet even Aklavik, well above the Arctic Circle, has 20 cars to substitute for dog sleds. Elsewhere in the North there are now nearly 4,000 licensed motor vehicles, though roads are still scattered. Travel to remote areas used to take months. Planes have brought any place in the area within a few hours of Edmonton...
...mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...
Last week in Washington, there was another embarrassing echo of the Senator's interest in Oliphant's welfare. A House subcommittee heard evidence that during the same period when he was trying to get a raise for Oliphant, Bridges was also pressing Oliphant to grant a favor to a millionaire taxpayer...
...once an independent, anti-Perón daily, to conform to his line. When La Prensa was closed, La Naión's Editorial Writer Alfonso de Laferrère wrote in La Naión: "A great voice has been silenced, but its echo will continue to vibrate . . ." The Peronistas soon went to work-as they had on La Prensa-totting up a trumped-up "customs bill" of 17 million pesos that the paper was supposed to owe the government. If La Naión steps out of line, it can be expropriated by the government, which could...
Nebraska-born Wright Morris does more than dedicate his new novel to Sherwood Anderson: in an almost filial gesture, he consciously patterns his story on Anderson's work. The locale of The Works of Love is Anderson's sleepy Midwest of the 1900s. Its style is an echo of Anderson's tone of baffled affection. And it focuses on an inarticulate man, Will Jennings Brady, who mistakenly tries to become a go-getter...