Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two theories, said Dr. Colbert, of how the molar may have got so far from land, 1) The dead mastodon, enclosed in a block of ice, may have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...
Last week he loaded crushed Dry Ice into an airplane and sowed 75 pounds of it from 12,000 ft. on a cloud near the fire. A few minutes later he saw rain falling from the cloud's base. A fairly heavy fall over the fire area lasted for 25 minutes, was followed by a two-hour drizzle. The Dry Ice shower, the Ontario Forest Protection Division reported, "had a dampening effect, but not an extinguishing effect upon the fire...
Pettit plans to tickle more clouds with Dry Ice...
Henry L. Mencken was very nearly a dead issue, in Baltimore. The daughter of his colored cook fatally stabbed her mother with-an ice pick and then set out for the Menckens'. Presently Mencken's brother August looked out his window and saw the daughter approaching, a bottle in each hand; he talked to her through,, the window, at the same time dialed police, who came on the double, nabbed her, and packed her off to a sanitarium. Mencken slept through everything...
Also aiding the search will be two great ice sheets known to have covered the area approximately 100,000 years ago and 25,000 years ago. Some time in between, this site--La Colombiere--was the home of an unidentified people. However, the scientists claim to be not so concerned with what these people looked like as when they lived...