Word: fjord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...
...mysteries of arctic life is how fish manage to survive in water so cold that their blood ought to freeze solid. In Hebron Fjord in Northern Labrador, the water at the bottom, 60 fathoms down, stays at - 1.0°C. (28.94° F.) winter and summer. There are plenty fish in it, leading active lives, but when their blood is extracted and chilled, it freezes at -.8° to -1.0° C., nearly a full degree above the temperature in which they live normally...
Last week an expedition led by Dr. Per F. Scholander of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution landed at Boothbay Harbor, Maine after spending eleven weeks around Hebron Fjord trying to find out what keeps the fish from freezing. Dr Scholander had a theory that their blood "supercooled," remaining liquid because ice crystals never get a chance to start forming in it. Ordinary water behaves in the same way if it is carefully chilled without stirring. The blood of the fish of course, is in constant motion through their hearts and vessels, so Dr. Scholander reasoned that the fish must have...
...Scholander's tentative conclusion: the pressure at the bottom of the Fjord (about 160 Ibs. per sq. in.) works in some unknown way in combination with the cold to keep the fish swimming and feeding when they should be hunks of ice. We'll come up with the answer in time " he says, "but there's a factor missing somewhere...
...takeoff, soaring through the air at 50 m.p.h., Ski-Jumper Arne Hoel could hear nothing but the wind in his ears. Then he caught the roar of the crowd: 100,000 Norwegian heias (hurrahs) swelling up from the packed slopes of Holmenkollen jump, on the edge of Oslo Fjord. A Norwegian ski crowd can tell a fine leap long before the landing...