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...from afar they come, from the coasts of the sea." They "sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are the object of their worship." Exponents of the theory that the Kittim are the Syrians see the "smooth ground" as meaning alternately a plain, a level road, the plateau east of the Dead Sea-or merely that they were unopposed. They identify the "animals" with which they trample the earth as the war elephants of which the Syrians were proud. But since the Hebrew language has a word for elephant, others ask, why did the scroll...
...Dealer Louis Izkovitz: "The drop looks drastic because prices had reached an all-time high. Actually, the market isn't a bad one at present in spite of the drop. Most of the people in the industry would be happy to have it level off at the present plateau...
...courses dealing wtih geography. "Even Yale is building up its geography department," he notes.Knobby Sandstone, Etc. The map on the left is a small segment from Raisz's landform map of North Africa. Raisz uses special symbols for each type of land configuration, such as mountain, dendritic sandstream, dissected plateau, wind-etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only wanted a map of the Pacific Northwest. Raisz found this hard to believe, but gave...
...refuge hut or to save themselves by making the ascent alone. They chose to leave the boys behind. Day by day the storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare not try to land near the two boys who still lay, possibly still alive, abandoned in the wreck of the first helicopter. "I have decided," the air-force chief...
...Violent Land. The men of Operation Deep Freeze found the continent a harsh, hauntingly beautiful and, above all, strange land. The snow crystals that drift down over its great central plateau seem dry as sand. Yet, because there is little ablation-return of moisture to the atmosphere-this light precipitation has become a glacier of up to a mile or more in depth. Under its own weight the ice moves glacially, spilling down off the plateau, flowing imperceptibly but inexorably toward the sea, squeezing through valleys, crawling over hills, plunging down the sides of mountains in great frozen cataracts. What...