Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutions that went into ridding the world of the scourge of monarchy have not fully succeeded, as our cousins across the ocean persist in clinging to the idiotic idea that a whole nation is duty bound to support one family because they were born into that class...
...should follow along at a constant barometric pressure, trapped in the eye like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast the storm is moving, its pressure, etc. A second gadget still under test is a big, inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies high enough to bring down pictures of an entire hurricane, several hundred miles across, give weathermen their first complete look at a big blow...
...Ninety percent of all plants live in the ocean; 90% of all multicellular animals are insects...
...good for twelve days, burst with a snowstorm. All landmarks disappeared; at one point they were near panic at the thought of starvation when someone spotted the blade of an ice ax that Jake had whimsically stuck beside a food cache, a needle point of steel gleaming in an ocean of snow. On instinct alone, Buckingham found the snow corridor that threaded through a region splintered by crevasses. And finally back down to 7,000 ft., they were plucked from McKinley's flank by their pilot...
...area that has scant natural resources for industry, a limited power supply and an uninviting tax structure. But it has two overwhelming advantages: a climate for ideas that has been carefully fostered during its 250 years as a U.S. intellectual headquarters, and the opportunity for pleasant living. The Atlantic Ocean is a few miles away. The mountains are only a short drive. Near by are many science-strong schools: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston University. Says M.I.T.'s Engineering Dean Gordon Brown: "To have a place where research-based companies can grow up, you must...