Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows part of the profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples, temperatures, and other deep-water measurements. The sailing ship is the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's pioneer research vessel, the Atlantis...
...missed targets that were there. The best Navy brains were baffled. So an offi cer was dispatched to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the shoul der of Cape...
Down from Woods Hole came the U.S.'s only full-fledged oceanographic vessel, the trim ketch Atlantis. Led by a tall, smiling young Harvard professor with the wonderful name of Columbus O'Donnell Iselin II, Woods Hole's oceanographers began dunking thermometers in the water, quickly spotted the Navy's trouble. It was just a question of temperatures, they explained. Tropical sun had heated the water to a depth of 50 ft. The sound waves were bent by this temperature gradient, hiding a sub as effectively as if it were behind a hill. Equipped with...
Wartime Romance. This momentous incident began a wartime romance be tween the U.S. Navy and oceanographers, whom most Government officials had until then considered a curious tribe of men messing about with sounding leads and little bottles of water samples. In the next few years, oceanographers at Woods Hole and its Pacific counterpart, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., trained hundreds of Navy officers-instructing sub men in how to use the sea's geography and mobile anat omy for concealment, teaching destroyer men how to trail their quarry through the sea's jungles...
Boston Summer Playhouse (76 Warrenton Street, Boston): June 29-July 4, "Fair Game"; July 6-11, "A Hole in the Head"; July 13-18, "Witness for the Prosecution"; July 20-25, "A Roomful of Roses"; July 27-August 1, "A View From the Bridge"; August 3-8, "Wedding Breakfast"; August 10-15, "Therese"; August 17-22, "Middle of the Night"; August 24-29, "The Moon Is Blue...