Word: embeddedness
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The spelunkers had an electric winch and 1,300 feet of steel cable in the core of which was embedded a telephone wire. Loubens went down first. He wore water-resistant coveralls, a miner's head lamp, strong cleated boots, and a crash helmet for protection against falling rocks...
Professor Ernest A. Rudge of West Ham Municipal College was on a picnic with his wife near Holyfield, twelve miles northeast of London, when he first noticed the odd, pear-shaped stone. Made of pebbles embedded in sandstone (conglomerate), it looked like a pudding full of raisins. To Archeologist Rudge...
¶ In Houston, where the big G.G. test was made (TIME, July 14), authorities still had a many-pointed problem: what to do with 33,127 syringes. Though they were intended to be discarded after use, care had to be taken lest they fall into the hands of dope addicts...
Actually, it is a simple matter of warning night drivers of what is to come. There should be a sign, embedded with glass beads, announcing that DeWolf Street is forbidden to those driving on Memorial Drive, and another sign announcing the curve west in the Drive itself. And there should...
Nolen appealed to graduates of the Boston University Law School to "help restore the real philosophy of America." He added that "I don't know of a single Boston University graduate who is so embedded in this new philosophy that he would dare to enter a court as a character...