Word: layered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes and the red of their lower lips showing through the layer of dust and grime. They looked like tired blackface minstrels with nothing to joke about...
...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...
Those Who Run Away. With Harrison Forman of the London Times I arrived in a town called Tunghsientien, a funnel through which refugees pour out of Honan. The refugees are stuffed into boxcars, flatcars, old coaches, layer upon layer deep. They are crowded on the roofs, children, old men & women clinging to any possible fingergrip as the trains hurtle along. Sometimes their fingers get so numb from the cold they fall off. The trains never halt...
Lost: the U.S. Navy's largest submarine, the 14-year-old Argonaut. A giant mine layer, 381 feet long, displacing 2,710 tons, she carried two 6-in. guns, a complement of 102 officers & men. She was the sixth undersea craft which the Navy has admitted losing since the war began...
...Jean François Darlan, which gave the U.S. a chance to make a clean deal in North Africa, also gave French factionalists a chance to brew a political crisis. Two remarkably candid reports to the U.S. this week suggested that all was far from quiet beneath the top layer of General Henri Honore Giraud's government...