Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government man with the small box slung over his shoulder paced slowly to and fro, holding his rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
...been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over the globe-by plane, train, boat, canoe, mule, and on foot-to bring back specimens...
This strange region and its gradual discovery are the subject of To the Arctic!, which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson describes as "the best history of northern exploration so far written." New Jersey-born Jeannette Mirsky who, at 44, has never cried "Mush!" to a dog or put foot to floe, first published her book in 1934. But it was dropped by her publishers after the first printing, because the late...
...drills, powered by the two compressed air machines that can be seen huffing and puffing near the tunnel excavation, are chipping a seven-foot square hole in the foundation wall. The tunnel, whose floor is about 15 feet underground, comes out of Widener, feints toward Wigglesworth and then veers sharply into the basement of Lamont...
Most College veterans will choose to foot the impending tuition increases without aid from Washington, John U. Monro '34, Counsellor for Veterans, predicted yesterday...