Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole complexion of the affair altered as Captain Wright testified last week on his own behalf and was cross-examined by Lord Gladstone's attorneys. At the trial Lord and Lady Gladstone sat together, venerable, glacial; and in the visitors' gallery sat famed (though slightly passÉ) dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; the Rt. Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lady Milner and many another...
...forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped up since they last met (TIME, Oct. 11). The so august and so friendly statesmen were engaged, last week, in settling the details of their...
...Glacial Stages of the Past: "Taeir Causes and Effects," Professor Mather Geological Lecture Room, Geology...
...small precipitation in recent winters, but the extinct glciation more than compensated. On both sides of the Whitney group, glaciers formed in the cirques under the peaks and flowed down east and west, but in greater volume westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate of the thickness of the ice gave 500 feet...
...partly was also fortunate in sighting a glacier bear, a rare variation of the black bear, found only in the glacial regions of Alaska. Its coat is light gray, similar to that of an ordinary gray squirrel. Comparatively few of these animals have ever been seen or studied, as they are extremely scarce...