Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a resume of the modern description of Earth's age and structure. Age?"definitely between one and 10 billion years" as estimated by timing the decomposition of uranium and other radioactive elements. Structure?a hades-hot metallic core, rigid as steel; then an envelope of viscous material, kept fluid by enormous pressure, not heat conducting, having faint tides, upon which the earth's ,crust "floats". The elasticity of the envelope which is 60 miles beneath the crust, and the core's rigidity, had been deduced from studying waves of force in earthquake shocks...
Last week the drilling had descended 3,500 ft., passing through strata of granite gneiss, a substance never known to have yielded oil in commercial quantities. A pipe-line had been constructed from the orifice to a neighboring cranberry bog to store the precious fluid when and if it gushed. But not a smitch of oil appeared...
...radios has rung the chiming voice of the swinging harp, from which one Captain C. H. Longbottom beguiles a sound like a fluid bell...
...Wellington, capital of New Zealand, a controversy raged over the fluid content of the welcome to the visiting U. S. fleet. The Drys said it should be dry; the Wets were all for dispensing "the customary hospitality." The vexatious problem was disposed of by leaving it to the decision of the Admiral commanding the fleet...
Never a great artist, Fuchs might have achieved genuine eminence had he studied more and plastered less. His work has suavity, poetry, a fluid line, it has also a fatal facility that is its undoing. Without the vitality to be great, he chose to be successful. Many who see his paintings, etchings, sculpture, may think he chose badly. Few will think so who read his book...