Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great Gulf Stream, which exports tropical water to northern Europe. With the aid of loran, the new Atlantis surveys proved that it is not a wide, steady stream, but a jet that whips from side to side over hundreds of miles and sometimes curls into eddies. It may run fast or slow or backward, and only the general sum of its motion carries warm water to Europe...
...Despite the new outburst of exploration, many mysteries remain. The creatures that live in the depths of the ocean are still only slightly known, and they may include the famed sea serpents of salty folklore. Sea-serpent sightings have diminished of late, but Revelle thinks this may be because fast, noisy, modern ships make poor platforms for serpent sighting. Sperm whales dive for gigantic squid up to 50 ft. long that live at great depths and have never been captured by man. Why should not the squid have companions down there...
...citizens ever to make the pilgrimage, and the road he took to get there was long and roundabout. Born in Lebanon, he came to the U.S. in 1902, armed with a railroad ticket to West Virginia, the names of relatives and not a word of English. But he learned fast, traveled far and lived well, until a quarrel with his Kentucky wife ended in divorce, and in 1947 he decided to go back to the Middle East. He bought a small house in Damascus, married again and settled down to a simple life on skimpy savings and a U.S. Army...
President Pool thinks his company has grown so fast partly because it is in an industry of giants. Says he: "Small companies have the advantage of being fast moving-by the time the big companies make up their minds that they want to do battle, the little company has already...
After all the months of speculation, the climax came so fast only the experts could follow the action. Sotheby's Chairman Peter Wilson, forehead beaded from strain and the heat of his serge coat and striped pants, started the bidding by asking diffidently: "Shall I say ?20,000?" A voice promptly sang out "?100,000." Bidding with lips, eyebrows, fingers and catalogues, dealers whooped the price upward at the rate of ?5,000 every four seconds...