Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with its own character and individuality. In some places the layers curl up and mix; in other places they do not. Through the layers mighty rivers stream on largely unknown courses, often flowing in opposite directions close to one another. Exploration of this huge anatomy is just beginning. Realizing ever more clearly that most weather originates over the oceans, meteorologists are studying its mighty motions as the key to the world's climate. A change in the direction of the flow of an ocean current can change the weather for an area miles inland, shift the course of hurricanes...
...Atlantis, crisscrossing the Atlantic and doing an oceanographer's chores-trailing thermometers at varying depths, testing water for density and salinity. In 1940 he became director of Woods Hole, saw U.S. oceanography transformed into a Naval auxiliary. For some reason, neither the German nor the Japanese navies ever got in touch with their oceanographers, who were excellent. "This made a hell of a difference in World War II," says Iselin...
...contributed more than money. War-developed sonar made depth measurements far more sensitive, giving oceanographers a more accurate look at the ocean's bottom than they had ever had before. The new loran, which can fix a ship's position within a quarter of a mile in daylight, night, or in the thickest fog, enabled a far more detailed and accurate study of ocean currents, and oceanographers launched zealously into new studies with their new tools...
...Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...
...days, in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri...