Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strayed long ago from the difficult channel Editor Herbert David Croly had plotted for it in 1914. When he met Banker Straight and his wife on an ocean crossing, the shy, religiously intellectual Croly had a challenging book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...
Seashore Idyl. In Manhattan Beach, Calif., a sea lion, devoted to Mrs. Ruby Bigelow after she had ungummed his tarred-up jaws, flopped after her all over town, took no notice when she repeatedly led him to the ocean and nudged him in, finally wore down her resistance, became...
Tsunami follow any submarine earthquake which causes a fissure or crack in the earth's crust. When a part of the ocean bottom drops away or when there is an underwater landslide, water surges in from all sides to fill the void...
...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
...After the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) Europe enjoyed a long period of relative quiet. That war devastated large parts of Europe, killed off millions of people and left starvation and disease . . . and there was no rich Uncle Sam across the ocean to crash through with food. . . . Won't this postwar charity and generosity of ours encourage Europe to go on staging big wars...