Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the University last year provided the Business School lot, few took this offer seriously, especially when a long, wet walk and an hour of jockeying on ice were in prospect. Four hundred car-owners applied for space, and tickets were destined to become extinct. But one night when the plow was unable to squeeze through a congested street, the police investigated and found only 40 cars in the lot. The remaining autos were clustered about the Houses and getting away with...
Last summer the Jirps established their headquarters on a "nunatak," a rocky island in the Taku glacier. The scientists analyzed it for layers of summer pollen grains and proved that they could be used like the growth rings of a tree to measure the age of the ice. They explored the cold depths with drills and with shock waves from explosions. They took samples of wood from ancient trees left behind like exhumed corpses by the huge Mendenhall glacier, in the southeastern part of the field. When the ages of these trees have been measured by the carbon 14 method...
From what they have read so far, glaciologists suspect that since the last major ice age the earth's climate grew gradually warmer until about 5,000 B.C. Then the cold came again, and the glaciers reached a secondary peak about the time of Christ. Again the climate grew warm, allowing Scandinavians to live happily in Greenland. Then came another cold period and the Greenland Norse disappeared...
Miller hopes that continued study of the Juneau Ice Field will add more details to this chronology. It may also predict the future. At present the earth is enjoying a warm spell, with the northern regions more hospitable than they have been in 200 years. But no one yet knows whether the ice is gathering again to creep down out of the north...
...spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...