Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good many seismologists believe that quakes in northeastern North America, whose rocks are old and relatively stable, are caused by an intermittent, jerky rising of the earth crust released from the great weight of the last Glacial Age. Dr. Leet dissents from this view, at least to the extent of pigeonholing it as a guess. In the Harvard Alumni Bulletin last week, he declared that deep forces are at work under New England and eastern Canada-moreover that the region is in a period of "increasing seismicity." He notes that relatively strong shocks were felt...
...Winship, leader of the Crimson snow troops last year, profited by a short session of skiing in Alaska last summer and is in tip-top condition now. Also a superb stylist, "Glacial Tom" can enter four events, but will probably stick to the downhill and slalom, although he may venture into the jump if needed. John Abbot was the fastest downhill man at Stowe, and has probably earned himself a place on the Varsity if he does as well in the slalom...
Quakes of last fortnight's kind are calling cards left by the huge ice masses which covered parts of the U. S. in the last Glacial Age. That ice was half a mile to two miles thick, weighed two to eight billion tons per square mile. The great weight squeezed the land below, pressed it down. Since the ice retreated northward 15,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ground once under it has been springing back upward, like a dry sponge after a weight on top of it is taken away. This recovery is not constant, takes place...
Director Leon Leonidoff rehearsed the glacial $200,000 spectacle in an overcoat and rubbers, while the pianist swathed himself in camel's hair. The huge cast that swirls and veers through Norman Bel Geddes' wintry landscapes was drawn from as far away as Austria and South Africa. Although Producer Sonja Henie, most famed skatress of them all, does not appear in her own production, she has a worthy substitute in Premiere Ballerina Stenuf, an engagingly plump Viennese who was runner-up to Henie in the 1936 Olympics. Skippy Baxter, a Massine of the runners, began his career, aged...
Mount Sinai of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah, a red-clay glacial hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ...