Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be nice to see the Advocate poets become really experimental, if that's where their hearts are; but it would be even better if they could venture out into the light and find something to say in verse...
After the iron had precipitated, the earth was a solid, fairly cool but basically unstable object. In its center was a ball of comparatively light rock. Around the rock was a thick layer of mixed iron and stone. Then came a very thin layer of stone. The whole great ball was smooth and symmetrical, with no land. Deep ocean covered the whole surface...
Then, says Urey, the light stone core began to float up through the iron like a tennis ball through molasses. As it approached the surface, land appeared for the first time; the oceans were crowded to one side, as on the third day of biblical creation.* For a while the earth had only a single continent (Pangea), but the continuing rise of the core material and its spreading out near the surface broke Pangea into chunks and carried them apart. His theory, says Urey, accounts for the remarkable fact, first pointed out by Alfred Wegener in his theory of continental...
...Unearthly Light. One morning, before her marriage to Joseph, an invisible presence impels Miriam to her room. There falls upon her "a clear unearthly light, not of the sun," and the angel appears speaking the words of the Annunciation. She is to bear a son conceived by the Holy Spirit...
Edmond A. Levy '51, director of the play, has discovered that his star's dance repertoire is limited to the foxtrot and the waltz. Kathi Osterman, Vassar '53, shown above with Rettenberg, says his dancing, "if not light," is "certainly fantastic...