Word: flume
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic winter, says Dr. Siple, the high interior of Antarctica becomes extremely cold. Its heavy, cold air flows down the sloping trough like water running down a flume. A little of it spills through gaps in the mountains, but most of it goes all the way to the coast, gaining enormous speed and spreading over the sea as a howling Antarctic gale...
...were part of a batch of 26,000 fingerlings hatched at the University's Applied Fisheries Laboratory. The fingerlings were marked by having their fins clipped, and put in the concrete pool. After two weeks there, they were sluiced down a flume into Seattle's Lake Union, from where they found their way to the Pacific. Ever since, Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, director of the laboratory, has wondered whether they would come back. Young salmon had often been successfully transferred from one watershed to another, but none had ever returned to anything as unhomelike as a concrete pool...