Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While awaiting trial last week on the relatively minor charge of a $400 false claim for stolen jewelry, Courtney Rogers maintained the immense glacial calm which has baffled sheriffs, infuriated prosecutors, prompted reporters to call him the "human icicle" and caused six psychiatrists to split 3 to 3 on his sanity. To any one who would listen, he continued to give patronizing lectures on astrology, Buddhism, grammar, physiology, Bach, palmistry, contract bridge...
...actors did not beam back. In glacial silence they heard their quisling director talk up a quisling dramatist. Then they left the theater to set in motion a little drama of their...
...made studies of and wrote papers about the glacial geology of the various parts of the United States and Canada, and was working on one devoted to Cape Cod at the time of his death. One of his favorite exhibits at the Museum was the relief model of "Kilauea...
...investigate further. The heads, weighing roughly 100 lb. each, were found several years ago in gravel pits near Malakoff, Tex. Since faking prehistoric relics is a good-sized industry in the Southwest, geologists were startled to find the heads genuine, more startled to find that they date from the glacial era some 20,000 years ago. Significance: until recently scientists thought that man first migrated to America (via Alaska) a mere 4,000 years...
Kirtley F. Mather, for a study of the microflora of glacial and recent marine sediments...