Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assorted objects against a cool sea painted on this week's cover by Artist Aaron Bohrod are familiar symbols of the oceanographer's trade. The brownish-pink PGR (Precision Graphic Record), from which the portrait emerges, is used to make a portrait of the ocean floor. The record that served as a model was actually made on July 15, 1958 and shows part of the profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples...
...York in Republican hands, it is California's Brown, Pennsylvania's Lawrence, New Jersey's Meyner, Michigan's Williams and the other big-delegation state leaders who can do much to set the trend at the start of the Los Angeles convention. And in the floor fighting that follows, they and their favorite sons could become the most sought-after Democratic Governors in many a convention year...
...sudden fire that engulfed the second floor of Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in Chicago last December, 91 children and three nuns died, scores of children were seriously injured (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, on behalf of five children still under medical care for severe burns. Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed in Cook County circuit court a $1,750,000 damage suit against 1) the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, for letting the school become a "dangerous fire trap," and 2) the City of Chicago, for failing to enforce its own fire ordinances for safety standards in schools...
Above its still mysterious floor, the ocean is not homogeneous but is a vast, intricate structure of separate and distinct layers, each 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...
...Geologists and oceanographers who look to the ocean's bottom have found that the ocean is a gigantic museum, where geological specimens are preserved like flies in amber. Among the most interesting of these geological fossils are the guyots, the flat-topped extinct volcanoes that dot the Pacific floor. How did they get down there, the oceanographer asks. Did their weight force them into the earth's crust, like corks pushed into putty? Did the ocean increase in volume and rise above them...