Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are bigger fish in the ocean-but not by much. The alltime record is 1,182 Ibs., caught by the late Lou Marron off Chile in 1953, and monsters easily twice as big have been seen. To that frightening bulk add fantastic speed (up to 60 m.p.h.), a long, terrible sword with which Gladius slays his prey, and a personality of regal, often violent, disdain for virtually anything and everything he encounters in the water...
First, the painter has to be caught and executed. Then the girl takes one look at the Hun's ugly head and horde, decides that she can never share his bed and board, and throws herself into the ocean...
...Conquering the Sea" shows how man will one day exploit the ocean for min erals, chemicals and enough food to feed a world population five times the size of today's. Among anticipated underwater developments: porpoises trained to act as liaisons between ships and divers, fish farming and coal mining. Repeat...
...discovery provides important support for the continental-drift theory. Among other recent evidence is the finding that the ocean floor is patterned with belts of rock magnetized in opposite directions. Recent studies indicate that the earth's magnetic field has reversed at least nine times in the past 3,600,000 years. Thus the belts provide a dependable time map that shows the effects of the reversing magnetic fields of the earth as the ocean floor expanded. This study also shows that the ocean floor is spreading at about the rate of two centimeters a year-which would just...
...Docking fees run anywhere from $2 per day at the Ninnescah Yacht Club near Wichita, Kans., to $10 per day at the crowded slips in Newport. Yearly maintenance on a 23-ft. Star-class racer costs between $500 and $1,000-and the annual tab for a 40-ft. ocean-racing yawl can top five figures...