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Word: mountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week after week, Rocco had called his wife's office to threaten her. He hung like a shadow around her home neighborhood. One day he poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Camera Eye | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths. The atolls, he concluded, must have been formed when islands sank, and the coral reefs fringing their shorelines continued to grow. "For as mountain after mountain, and island after island slowly sank beneath the water, fresh bases would be successively afforded for the growth of the corals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mt. Bikini | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...found on the surface. Then began a zone of heavier rock, which might be ash thrown out by a volcano, or limestone formed by corals and other sea creatures and compacted by pressure. At about 5,000 feet, they found what they had hoped to find: a "buried mountain" of heavy rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mt. Bikini | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...holiday crashes were not over. The dead were still being brought down from the California mountain, and carried across Eire's Fergus River when the Chicago radio tower received an urgent message. American Airlines pilot Frank Hamm Jr., on top of the overcast en route from Buffalo to Chicago, had failing engines, would have to land on whatever was handy when he came down out of the cloud. He came out above the shore of Lake Michigan, headed for the Michigan City (Ind.) airport only about 40 miles from Chicago's municipal field. But there was not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Death at Christmastide | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...tidy little mountain capital of San José it was fiesta time. The coffee had been harvested, the price was good, and everybody had some money. Thousands of ticos (Costa Ricans) jammed the broad green of the capital's Plaza Gonzáles Viquez for the annual four-day "Civic Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: People's Bullfight | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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