Word: ices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuffed Quahogs ("This should have no other companion but ice cold beer...
...this is conceivable), in 1960 they would produce nearly enough food to meet FAO's very generous requirements. Then Dr. Salter looked around the world for new soil to conquer, not by war but by intelligent change. Forty-eight percent of the land area, he said (ice, tundra, mountains or deserts), is hopeless for agriculture. In the remaining 52% there is plenty of room for expansion, for only 7-10% of the total is cultivated at present. Dr. Salter believes that virtually all of the 52% could be made productive if there were good reason to make...
...bomb's "limitations," Oppenheimer replied: "The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving end." He is still convinced that an international program is essential, and for the best of selfish reasons: "Our atomic monopoly is like a cake of ice melting...
Most startling was Dart's evidence, from a number of charred bones, that the little man had learned to use fire. He lived in the early Ice Age, from 300,000 to 500,000 years before Peking Man, hitherto the earliest known user of fire. In honor of both his fire-bringing record and his prophetic skills, the new little man was named Australopithecus prometheus...
...response to two letters sent by Russell in the past week and a half, the William Morris Agency at Rockefeller Center, Allen's publicity men, finally broke the ice yesterday with the information that a thorough investigation is under way. Implying that they would just as soon hear nothing more from Russell for a while, the agency promised to take complete charge of the matter and notify him in about a week...