Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with its streaming files of ducks and geese, the boat sailed on. "Red-yellow moon," wrote Irving, "silver star-calm, cobalt-green sky reflected in river . . . wide, treeless, prairie-trembling with heat-here not a tree or a shrub was to be seen -a view like that of the ocean . . . beautiful clear river, group of Indian nymphs half naked on banks...
...expected and feared, the Japs kept sending down medium bombers to pock Saipan's runways and try to keep the B-29s grounded. Last week, in one such thrust, the enemy destroyed one $600,000 Superfortress, damaged two others. But the new Strategic Air Force of the Pacific Ocean Areas, neatly dovetailed with the Navy's surface command, was planning counter-measures to end this nuisance and to rock the Japs back...
Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...
Ewing's lenses have caught wrecked ships (he is now working for the Navy), "dust" storms, some strange fish. His method makes it possible to observe certain fish which cannot be caught alive with nets because they live only at ocean-bottom pressures. He also hopes that his camera will clear up an old baffler: why do fish from the presumably dark ocean bottom have well developed eyes, while those at slightly higher levels seem nearly blind? Ewing's guess: there are large amounts of luminescent organisms on the ocean floor...
Among the chief things oceanographers would like to know is the nature of 1) the mud and silt deposits, believed to range from 600 feet to seven and a half miles thick, which cover the ocean bottom, and 2) the earth's suboceanic ribs under these deposits. Ewing has already discovered sand ripples in ocean bottoms as deep as 600 feet, indicating previously unsuspected currents. To pursue a theory that cold water moves along the ocean bottom from the poles to the equator, Ewing plans to photograph the movement of dye released on the ocean floor...