Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court called off the holiday by rejecting seven appeals based on the Jencks ruling. Written by Justice Felix Frankfurter (joined by Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the main opinion in the seven cases upheld a statute passed by Congress in 1957 to narrow the Jencks decision. Its basic rules...
...oceanography for the National Academy of Sciences. Relieved to find that very large yearly sums for big vessels were not necessary, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Bigelow $3,000,000 to outfit and endow an oceanographic institute. Bigelow set up his institute in Woods Hole-a small town on a narrow strait ("The Hole") connecting Buzzards Bay with Vineyard Sound. The ocean is always a presence there, flowing around the town and through its small, snug harbors. Grey fog often drifts through the town, smelling of the sea, and sometimes hurricanes slam ashore. No better place exists to keep an oceanographer...
...Deep & Narrow. Before the war, even such well-known currents had not been thoroughly mapped in detail. For Woods Hole oceanographers, the first order of business was a new study of the great Gulf Stream, which exports tropical water to northern Europe. With the aid of loran, the new Atlantis surveys proved that it is not a wide, steady stream, but a jet that whips from side to side over hundreds of miles and sometimes curls into eddies. It may run fast or slow or backward, and only the general sum of its motion carries warm water to Europe...
Mysterious Trenches. An ocean-bottom problem that fascinates all oceanographers is the origin of the deep troughs that are found mostly in the Pacific. The deepest ones, e.g., the Tonga Trench, the Marianas Trench, have narrow V bottoms that are clear of sediment. They are uneasy parts of the earth's crust. Deep-focus earthquakes rumble out of them, and generally volcanoes spout near...
Since there is no room on the narrow Thames for all crews to compete for a trophy at the same time, winning at Henley is a process of elimination. The final events take place on Saturday...