Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps the earth's poles were in different places then [in the ice age], allowing a temperate zone to curve unbroken al the way from the U.S. to Peru" [TIME...
...Bill, the hunter, who kept the camp supplied with meat, had been around a long time and a lot of places. Up in Alaska said Bill, "I saw big hairy elephants buried in the ice. Not only them, but ferns high as a tree and palms. That country was in the tropics at one time...
...Ice Cream for Ivan. Poland was among the first nations to accept the Marshall Plan "in principle" last June, and the Communists, like other Poles, were disappointed when the Kremlin told them to reverse themselves and decline the invitation to the Paris conference. Ships flying the flags of 14 nations were in Gdynia the day I landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice...
Some 40 Yardlings took to the Boston Arena ice for the first time yesterday, as Coach John Chase and Freshman Coach Stan Priddy put a miscellaneous lot of hockey players on trial...
...were imbedded in a layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...