Word: intermittente
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Stalin means steel, but Stalin Line does not mean steel wall. The Stalin Line is an intermittent series of fortifications in depth, a ribbon of redoubts averaging 25 miles across, and too long-1,100 miles-to be solid. It was mostly built in the Maginot era of military thought...
Capitalist Speaks. In the U. S., which in many ways is socially about where Britain was a year ago, at least one capitalist has spoken plain words to his colleagues about the revolutionary aims of the world. He is Charles Edward Wilson, new President of General Electric Co., who said...
A good many seismologists believe that quakes in northeastern North America, whose rocks are old and relatively stable, are caused by an intermittent, jerky rising of the earth crust released from the great weight of the last Glacial Age. Dr. Leet dissents from this view, at least to the extent...
By dawn on Jan. 4 the Italians could reply only with intermittent fire. The British land-sea-air attack had silenced most of their guns. Huge clouds of smoke hung over the battered town. Then a whole section of the cliff gave way. Roaring down to the sea in an...
Quakes of last fortnight's kind are calling cards left by the huge ice masses which covered parts of the U. S. in the last Glacial Age. That ice was half a mile to two miles thick, weighed two to eight billion tons per square mile. The great weight...