Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Libraries and laboratories alike are swallowing up money like quicksand. Yale is spending $798,000 for books, against $476,000 in 1939; and its scientists, like those of every other institution, have long outgrown their Bunsen burners. A sign of the times is the fact that the University of California's new cyclotron cost $95 million; only the U.S. Government has that kind of money, so the U.S. paid...
Three dry holes had been drilled in the dome before the arrival of an engineer, prospector and onetime Austrian naval officer named A. F. Lucas. Lucas drilled a fourth "duster at Spindletop." Undiscouraged, he set up new equipment and began again, determined to pierce 500 ft. of quicksand which lay beneath the surface soil...
Watch over her in the desert Watch over her in the mountain Watch over her in the labyrinth Watch over her by the quicksand...