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...Island, is flat, sodden tundra sprinkled thickly with little lakes. Most of them are irregularly shaped. But Prospector Fred W. Chubb noticed, while poring over an aerial photograph, that one lake was almost round and surrounded by a wall of rock. Chubb showed the photo to Dr. V. Ben Meen, director of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum of Geology and Mineralogy...
This week Dr. Meen returned from a quick air visit to the lake and reported that it was almost certainly a meteorite crater (there was no lava or other sign of volcanic activity), and the biggest yet discovered. The lake in the crater (still frozen at the end of July) is 2½ miles across, compared with Arizona's famed meteorite crater, which is four-fifths of a mile across. Its level is about 80 feet above that of other small lakes in the vicinity, and around it is a ring of shattered granite that rises 550 feet above...
...Meen found no meteoric iron, only a reddish rock that might prove to be the peculiar stony material of which some meteorites are made. But there was plenty of other evidence that some enormous body had buried itself in the earth: shattered blocks of stone from football to freight-car size, and concentric circles in the granite around the crater, like ripples stirred up by a pebble dropped into still water...
...pronunciation on the English phonetics which are given for each Italian word. These phonetics provide a reasonable approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...
...Pierian Sodality will give an informal concert in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock. The programme has meen arranged as follows: 1. "Twenty-second Regiment March," V. Herbert Orchestra. 2. Overture--"Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna," Suppe Orchestra. 3. "Tinkers' Chorus" from Robin Hood, R. de Koven Glee Club. 4. Concert waltz--"Fesche Geister," Strauss Orchestra. 5. "Huzzah," wine song, Buch Glee Club. 6. Overture--"Dons Juan," Mozart Orchestra. 7. "Swords out for Charlie," F. F. Bullard H. M. Boylston '03, accompanied by L. D. Granger '04. 8. "The Good-Bad Little...