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Both Calm. Dictator Mussolini and his would-be assassin both retained a glacial calm. The Premier sat quietly in his car and received an ovation with immobile features while his chauffeur changed a tire punctured by a splinter from the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bomb | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...glacial times, when the ice sheet still blocked the Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys, there were two southerly outlets to the Great Lakes system, the present Wabash and Desplaines-Illinois valleys, both leading to the Mississippi. The latter ultimately robbed the former and a vast river, called Warren River after the engineer who traced its old scourway, carried the entire system's outlet. The Chicago canal follows that scourway, deepened but a few feet. There was, in the Warren River's day, a "Lake Chicago" spreading out over the present state of Michigan ; Huron, Erie and Ontario were a "Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lake Levels | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOEL CAPTURES HEARERS WITH MT EVEREST TALE | 3/5/1926 | See Source »

...Antevs, under a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund for Research in Geology, has been investigating the glacial deposits of eastern North America. Previous to this Dr. Antevs made extensive research connected with the glacial deposits of Europe. Many of the results of these studies will be incorporated in his lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEDISH SCIENTIST STARTS SERIES OF SHALER SPEECHES | 3/3/1926 | See Source »

...Physiography and Glacial Geology of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia", an illustrated lecture, will be delivered by Professor F. K. Mather tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mather to Lecture Tomorrow | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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