Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the fence was 410 feet from the plate...
Rooney said further description of the suspects, their car or license plate number would be welcomed by the Harvard police...
...eight-year-old Blake Day stepped to the plate yesterday in the Cambridge Common not only did he face tough pitching but also some obstacles along the base path...
...lesser writer could not have made a subject as abstruse as plate tectonics both intelligible and readable. Seen in four dimensions -- not least of which is time -- the earth appears as an endless, slow-motion demolition derby. Untangling cause and effect challenges both mind and imagination. Nature has had 4 billion years to jumble the record, and geologists not even two generations to begin to grasp the mechanisms of continental drift...
...evidence suggests that earthquakes are incremental steps in the movement of the 20 or so lithospheric plates that make up the planet's crust. It takes about 50,000 major jolts to nudge a plate 100 miles. Eldridge Moores, the geologist who guides McPhee, believes California was formed when a 2,000- mile-long arc of land parked against North America 250 million years...