Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow Republican Colonel Henry Stimson-also a veteran of World War I, onetime Secretary of State and of War, a glacial, recondite student of foreign affairs-the President's appointee as Secretary of War, appeared before the Senate Military Affairs Committee for the same purpose...
...family of primates called man reached human status in Asia, Africa, or Europe (possibly in all three), came relatively late to North America. Scattered fossils of individuals-notably the famed "Minnesota Maid" who apparently fell or was thrown into a Glacial Period lake -have been dated as having lived 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. But even this modest antiquity has been denied by the Smithsonian Institution's doughty Ales Hrdlicka. Until recently the earliest known American "culture" was that of mysterious Folsom Man, whose first tools and campsites were encountered near Folsom, N. Mex. No remains...
...nearly done, glacial Mr. Welles melted ever so slightly; he seemed pleasantly weary, a touch debonair. He was happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...
This country is rough and rocky, with a line of low glacial hills running from the shore of Lake Saimaa to Hamina on the Gulf. Along this line the Finns were expected to make their next stand. The eastern end of the Mannerheim Line would eventually have to be abandoned also, with that part of the Finnish Army probably retreating to join the forces north of Lake Laatokka. Apparently the Finns hoped, by thus splitting their Isthmus army, to harass the Russian rear with guerrilla tactics, keep the Russians too busy to organize a drive on Helsinki before spring...
...expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been missing for five years. Later he was put in command of a second search party. Despite scurvy, dying dogs, desertions and a ship frozen in the ice pack, he made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time he was doctor, nurse and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. He finally got his party, invalids and all, to safety with loss of only one man. Kane died in Havana just after his 37th birthday...