Word: greenland
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...moon's shadow raced over Greenland, it was waylaid by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Britain's Astronomer Royal and lord of Herstmonceux Castle, now the Royal Observatory. Sir Harold chased the shadow from Greenland to Iceland in an R.A.F. bomber, prolonging his view of totality by 22 seconds as he looked for daylight aurorae. He saw none...
...Arctic icecap, covering some 3,000,000 square miles from Greenland to Northeastern Siberia, is the source of cold winds and ocean currents that affect the climate of the northern hemisphere. Last week Edward L. Gorton Jr. of the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office released the first results of a continuing analysis of the polar wasteland...
...Soviet Arctic Research Institute reported last week that it had mapped the bottom of the frozen Arctic Ocean. Main feature: a mountain range up to 10,000 ft. high that runs submerged from northern Greenland to the New Siberian Islands (see map). The Soviet scientists named it the Lomonosov Range in honor of Russian Poet-Scientist Mikhail Vassi-lievich Lomonosov...
...Orchestra is now awaiting final Air Force confirmation of the tour, which would take the musicians to places like Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and North Africa...
Rearguard Disbanded. Underlying the big change was a new attitude of mature, professional self-confidence. It showed itself along the muddy fighter bases behind the lines in Korea, at bomber bases in North Africa, in Alaska, Greenland and Britain, at training bases in Arizona-and in the Pentagon itself. The attitude was best symbolized by a blue-clad West Pointer who wears the four stars of the Chief of Staff of the U.S Air Force-a broad-shouldered airman with grey curly hair parted down the middle, black eyebrows, a strong nose and a big jaw-named Nathan Farragut Twining...