Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes Juan four hours a day to get to & from his work, which is sometimes as much as five miles out under the ocean. The tunnels are hot and humid. In the big Lota mine, there have been 8,151 accidents and 38 deaths in the past 20 months...
...Gardiner's will describes the scope of the Gardiner Chair as "for the study and teaching of the geography and history of the sea and ocean areas" and the natural and human factors ashore that affect their use as channels of communications...
...spite of its romantic name, the Atlantis did not search for relics of lost Atlantis, the fabled continent which the ancient Greeks believed sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago. Most geologists do not take the Atlantis myth seriously...
...Continents Strayed. But the expedition may throw light on a more important mystery: the origin of the continents. Some geologists believe that the continents are masses of granite floating in the heavier plastic basalt which underlies both the land and the ocean basins. Since they are floating, they may drift, like infinitely slow-moving icebergs. One theory holds that North and South America have drifted away from Europe and Africa, and that the curving crack between them has widened to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...High, Ocean Deep. Californians boast about their eight-campused university in the same extravagant, affectionate way that they talk about their climate and their oranges. Their enthusiasm is adjectival: the university is big, varied, young, impatient, aggressive, progressive. Especially big. Its interests run as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. At Scripps Institution in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), Cal oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings...