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Word: oceaneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ocean that separates man from this self-knowledge remains to be charted. Crossing it will require money, dedication, ingenuity and the development of a whole new field of science and technology. The explorers of the brain have embarked on a journey even more significant than the voyage of Columbus in 1492. Columbus discovered a new continent. The explorers of the brain may well discover a new world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the Frontiers of the Mind | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Scientists know from experience what could happen if a coastal storm should blow up on these dates. Research Scientist Fergus J. Wood, of the National Ocean Survey, recalled last week that a spring tide of 5.2 ft. at Atlantic City in March 1962 was whipped by gusts of up to 70 knots and rose 9.5 ft. above the average low-water mark. Huge waves battered the Atlantic coast. The accompanying floods cost 40 lives and some $500 million in damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Danger from the Tides | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...City. As a director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, he made a number of important discoveries, including satellites of both Uranus (1948) and Neptune (1949). When, in the early 1960s, other scientists were concerned that a spacecraft landing on the moon would sink in an ocean of dust, Kuiper correctly described the lunar surface as resembling "crunchy snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 7, 1974 | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Between the cozy certitudes of 19th century New England and the savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whole Sea Catalogue | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

Potentially, shale oil is a fabulous fuel. It requires no costly hit-or-miss exploration, no ocean rigs, no precarious negotiations with foreign governments. Instead, it is a U.S. resource, locked in immense quantities-estimates range from 600 billion to 3 trillion bbl. - in rock formations throughout the semi-arid Rocky Mountain states. But no major shale-oil development could begin until the Federal Government, which owns between 70% and 80% of the oil-bearing lands, decided to lease out its deposits. That decision, in turn, depended mostly on how serious the environmental effects of mining would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Shift to Shale | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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