Word: fjord
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...thousands of fissures in the wrinkled western shore of Norway is the Stor Fjord, an S-shaped water that snakes through the wall-sided mountains for 35 mi. before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord...
...villagers in their beds, a few fishermen in their sloops offshore, and the operator in the power station who threw on his switch and lit the two villages and the moving mountainside. Splash! A small piece fell in the water, sent a six-ft. wall of water up the fjord, inundated the power station and plunged the villages into darkness again. The villagers rushed out of their houses toward the slopes. Splash! A bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving a loft. wall of water after the first. It picked up the fishing boats, smashed them against the shore. SPLASH...
...years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded that their geological histories were distinct...
From here he intends to work up along the coast and into every fjord for about 200 miles, ice condition permitting, making short trips inland to the Torngat Mountains. The furthest point to be aimed at is Cape Mugford, just south of Ungava...
Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Princess Martha of Sweden, vacationing last week in a villa high above Oslo Fjord, saw a sailboat drifting helplessly toward the rocks, rushed to their rowboat. Prince Olaf rowed. Princess Martha flung a rope. The sailors were saved...