Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Segat used his bayonet to carve a hole in another prisoner's ear. "Captain Griffiths gave me a piece of signal wire," he said, "and told me to tie it to the ear." Then the patrol moved off, with Segat leading the prisoner...
...Piccard's Bathyscaphe again made headlines when it dropped its magnetically-held ballast eggs some two land one half miles beneath the Atlantic's waves and bobbed up for air, thus completing the deepest dive in history. If any group was unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering...
Stalking the elusive current patterns of the Gulf Stream and mapping the bottom of the Atlantic, the Atlantis has made voyages totalling almost a million miles, which when mapped on a chart look, like a huge spiderweb across the ocean with its focus at Woods Hole. Assisted by the Caryn, a ninety-seven foot ketch that goes on the shorter cruises, the boats often spend 250 days each year...
Throughout the thirties the Wood's Hole laboratories nursed themselves along on grants from the Carnegie foundation, staffed themselves with college faculty in the summer and closed down in the winter. Then, in 1946, as the fruit of Iselin's door knocking campaign in Washington, the Navy became interested in woods Hole. The Navy wanted to know how to forecast the waves on a beach. For this knowledge they turned to the contracts have turned the institute into a year round operation and cast a net of security over some of the research...
Despite oceanography's large aims, most of the work at Woods Hole proceeds on a practical level, and final solutions can merely be nibbled at. For working in an age when the Atlantic is becoming in the eyes of some Airlines a "glorified puddle" the oceanographers have turned back to this "puddle" to seek in its depths some of the closest secrets of the earth.George A. HermannScientist (upper left) surveys small accurate scale currents formed in spinning parabaloid bowl as nozzle at right blows air into water. Workman (above) is shown adjusting a newly designed Nansen bottle for gathering selected...