Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cosmic rays, the rise & fall of tides (average change: 4 ft.), atmospheric refraction that makes distant icebergs seem to dangle in the air. They found traces of coal, copper and uranium (but none worth mining at present), collected evidence that one continent has been slowly rising as its ice cap melts...
...Chicago last week the thermometer registered a balmy 62°. That cut no ice with Bioclimatician William Ferdinand Petersen, Chicago pathologist. For 25 years he has been studying the medical fata morgana of the decisive effects of weather and sunspots on human beings. His latest book about them: Man-Weather and Sun. He is definitely against spring (TIME, March 25, 1946). This week he broke out again in his annual rash of anti-spring fever: United Press and This Week carried thunderhead interviews...
...Ice, hair, and mud may not be thrown into the street; you can't beat a carpet or tie a horse to a tree on any public ground. Even gambling is covered by these ancient rules. No person, according to one ordinance, may expose a gaming table of any kind in any lane, alley, or street...
...nine eastern states, another trout season got under way. By the thousands, fishermen struggled out of bed before dawn, bundled into several layers of clothing, pulled on their waders, tuned up their tackle, gulped hot coffee and were off. As light broke, they slogged into the ice-cold waters of such favorite streams as the Wiscoy, the Willowemoc, the Ausable, the Beaverkill and the Lackawaxen...
...seems to be the blood (it used to be the skull). Dr. Victor E. Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, used blood tests to determine where Eskimos came from. In blood groups, he said, Eskimos are practically identical with American Indians. Therefore they are not descendants of Europe's ice-age population (as one theory maintains), or recent immigrants from Siberia. They are probably Indians who moved north and developed their peculiar culture. This theory, said Dr. Levine, is supported by the fact that ancient Eskimo-like relics have been reported as far south as Manhattan Island...