Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geologists use the microscopic fossils brought up in the borings when wells are drilled to identify and correlate oil-bearing rock formations. The rock that overlies oil deposits consists of petrified muck of swamps where dinosaurs sloshed, and of seas where ichthyosaurs swam. In the pertrified muck geologists find the dinosaurs' infinitesimal contemporaries because they are bored up intact and in great numbers. In the Carboniferous period and before, when the earth's coal and oil deposits were formed, there prospered a hard-shelled order of protozoa, the Foraminifera, which were sometimes two inches but usually less than...
...around the enemy whites' artillery, anti-tank defenses, infantry positions and supply lines the black Panzers darted. Only comfort for the surprised, outflanked troops of the Ninth was the providential presence of a protecting swamp in the engineers' path. The black s- would certainly mire in the muck...
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
...About 40% of Blanding's 117,000 acres are below the level of a nearby lake. Result: $740,000 for a drainage system and dredging to replace muck with sand. Moving one group of tents out of the mud cost around...
Striking medical victories scored by British surgeons amid the muck and terror of the recent Allied withdrawal from Flanders were noted in London last week by the authoritative Lancet...