Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. George Palmer Putnam, 51, publicity-loving publisher; and Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny James; in Boulder City, Nev. Publisher Putnam's second wife, famed Flier Amelia Earhart, vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. His first wife divorced...
...neighborliness and tolerance. How vastly different, by way of contrast, is our situation from that in certain countries overseas where we have been witnessing a racial and religious persecution so cruel as to render life almost intolerable. Is there danger of such racial or religious antipathies crossing the ocean and finding foothold here? I cannot believe it. Yet, from time to time, even in this country, we hear vague, intolerant mutterings...
Beside the little Pawcatuck River, six miles back of where the Atlantic makes Watch Hill a swank summer resort, the lively 270-year-old town of Westerly, R. I. (pop.: 11,000) lies snug against most ordinary ocean blows. But the one that whistled in on the afternoon of last September 21 was no ordinary blow, it was the wildest in the memory of any New Englander. Having washed a good deal of Watch Hill away, it tossed garages and outbuildings into the air, snapped off church steeples, huffed houses down, crippled the power lines, blew in, among others...
...have buried in the ground in the United States $15,500,000,000 of the world's gold supply, with more of it being hurried across the ocean. Instead of being utilized as the basis of a world credit structure . . . this mass of metal has been transmuted into a burden...
Submarine Canyons. Modern methods of exploring the ocean bottom by echo-sounding have disclosed several huge undersea canyons. One of these submerged gorges, lying off the Hudson River's mouth, is 130 miles long and its lower end lies under 7,500 ft. of Atlantic Ocean. One theory has it that submarine canyons were cut during the Glacial Age by surface rivers. This could have occurred only if the sea level was then nearly two miles lower than it is now - a presumption difficult to account for, even allowing for water drawn into the great Glacial Age ice sheets...