Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present valley," he explained. "This terrace in the Lindenmeier Valley can be traced miles downstream to the South Platte River. From here it can be followed upstream to the canyons in the Rocky Mountains. The formation of these canyons is closely connected with the retreat of the last great glacial advance, which is a standard for chronology...
...tougher for Horatius Hrdlicka. In 1931 the University of Minnesota's Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks investigated a human fossil turned up by a roadscraper. After long study he pronounced it to be that of a 15-year-old girl who had fallen or been thrown into a Glacial Age lake; he put her age at 20,000 years. Dr. Hrdlicka said No. He admitted that she had surprisingly big teeth, but could find no significant anthropological difference between her and recent Indians, did not seem to care about the geological evidence...
...more bitter than the cold was a glacial realization which last week for the first time crushed Europe's capitals, big and small: the Continent was on the brink of a general war which might engulf even the most unwilling neutrals. Two wars-Allies v. Germany, Finland v. Russia-seemed dangerously close to merging and swallowing all of Scandinavia...
...Buenos Aires, the night before the U. S. plan for a 21-Republic agreement was to be broached, Mr. Hull and his glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present the U. S. plan, and do the "fronting" for it, as a mere matter of strategy. It was 10:30 p. m. Protocol-minded Mr. Welles insisted nothing could be done that night. But to his horror, his worried chief shoved his feet into carpet slippers, his pajama coat dangling over his trousers...