Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Urey, of course, has the right and the duty to speak out on political issues. But it is highly unfortunate that his speech rates wide publicity. The lava of Urey's wrath, filled though it may be with extra neutrons, is worth no more than that of any number of intelligent citizens. These citizens can only express themselves in the Letters to the Editor column; the press does not present them with the opportunity to be news hence authoritative, though their ideas may be worth far more than Urey's. The majority of renders tend to think...
...moon plowed through the ring of satellites, they smashed into its surface and exploded like H-bombs. They dug craters, sometimes cracked the crust and let lava from the hot interior flow out to form "seas" and plains. Later the moon cooled and wrinkled. The last of the satellites threw up mountainous walls of rubble, scattered giant boulders for miles around, and etched brilliant white craters on the brittle crust...
...heat cannot easily escape. After millions of years, the temperature rises until a vast blister of hot, expanded rock has formed. If it works its way to the surface, or if cracks appear, the hot rock may liquefy and escape as a volcanic explosion or a quiet outflow of lava...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
Several Idaho streams, e.g., the Lost River, sink into the lava wastelands but, about 200 ft. down, flow in a steady surge. Pumps are tapping the water, enough for 648 new homesteads. At last week's drawing, 85 were to be parceled...