Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
When the rocks brought back by the Atlantis are properly studied, they may prove that: 1) the Ridge was once part of the original continental mass, before the continents parted company; or 2) the underwater range is a young mountain system, slowly rising in the widening gap between the continents...
...embarrassedly exposed to the quibbler's truth about its literary worth. It is in the quality of featured creative writing that the publication's distinctive claim to excellence must lie. This time the copy looks good; and it is well above the average in published collegiate work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else...
...worried reader of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote to Lovelorn Columnist Molly Mayfield that she and her husband quarreled because he was a Democrat and she a Republican. What should she do? Advised Columnist Mayfield: find a Henry Wallace man and invite him over. "You both could join in heaping coals on the Wallace follower. In this way you and your husband might be closely drawn together...
Along the sunny slopes of the world's second highest mountain range,*lucky latinos with time & money were hard at work at winter sports. Chilean students and bank clerks by the hundreds dashed off in buses and open trucks for Sundays at Farellones, a village of ski-club huts within sight of Santiago. Argentines rode the ski tow to the top of Vermont-like foothills around the lake town of Bariloche. Luckiest of all were those who bucked the drifts to Portillo, 9,300 feet high and right in the ribs of the Andes...