Word: glacially
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...closing stages, Detroit's Layne passed constantly and desperately, but Detroit could not score again. At last glacial Paul Brown had made it big. He had won his first "world championship"; he had wiped out the Lions' hex, and wiped the Lions' faces in the dirt. Not even reports of Otto Graham's retirement could spoil Coach Brown...
...wilds of northern British Colum bia last week, the touring Duke of Edinburgh was taken inside a 7,000-ft. mountain where a powerhouse bigger than a cathedral had been blasted out of the solid granite. Water from glacial lakes poured down through a ten-mile tunnel to turn the turbines and set in motion the vast Kitimat project built by the Aluminum Co. of Canada. "Does it work?" shouted the duke above the machines' roar. Said a proud Alcan engineer: "You bet it does...
...extremely old for a relic of New World man. Dr. F. J. McClure of the National Institute of Health analyzed both animal and human bones for their fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom man, who therefore remains a ghost, but is no longer the oldest American...
...From too much fasting he grows weak. Troubled with mysterious pain of body and soul, he struggles helplessly with his practical responsibilities. The children of the village laugh at him, prank him ruthlessly. When he innocently tries to give spiritual advice to the worldly lord of the manor, that glacial aristocrat calls him crazy. Soon everyone seems to hate him. The middle-aged priest of the next parish explains why: "Your simplicity . . . burns them...
Everest, therefore, wears through almost a third of its 71 minutes before the expedition is safely stowed in its base camp at 18,000 ft. in the western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story...