Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warmed somewhat to glacial Sir John Simon, long unpopular when Foreign Secretary, as his first important act in his new job of Home Secretary proved to be a reprieve for the popular "Rats' Murderer," George Percy Stoner (TIME, April 22; June...
...Unfortunately," said Harvard's famed Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) last week, "I am, unaware of any marked improvement of man's evolutionary status since the end of the glacial period...
...world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white man thought to ask them what the strange words meant. More than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk...
Died. Raymond Poincaré, 74, Wartime President and three times Premier of France; after four years of ill health; in Paris. A squat, white-bearded, glacial man with a prodigious memory, he set "liquidation of the War" as his great goal, was responsible for French occupation of the Ruhr, staved off financial panic at home, retired in 1929 after consolidating France's War indebtedness to Britain...
Beside the long-sought conquest of the mountain the party accomplished much interesting and valuable scientific work Of particular interest in this respect was the measurement of glacial movement, not only over the course of weeks, but also in hours. Unexpected results were obtained, showing that the glacier suddenly slid forward during the evening around supper time, again about midnight, and once more early in the morning. The average movement of the Crillon glacier, the one studied most in detail, was two inches an hour. Dynamite blasting was also done to determine the depth of the ice by means...