Word: rim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zane Grey, wild west novelist, owns a large ranch on the rim of Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...
Aniakchak and Veniaminoff were discovered seven years ago by R. Harvey Sargent, for 21 years head of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Sargent's party only had time to measure around the great crater holes, found the rim circumference of Aniakchak to be 21 mi., of Veniaminoff, 20 mi.* They found no trace of activity in their hasty circumspection, pronounced the craters big but dead...
...There is a hole above the temple as big as an apple. His closed eyes bulge under blue lids; his puffy face is green. He has torn away the bandage, his fingers pluck at his curly black hair that is clotted with blood and dirt, they pluck at the rim of the wound. His torn brain pulses, partly exposed-like a red brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams trickling down. His skin hangs in ribbons; it is scorched and smells of burning. . . . Thus they lie, rows of them...
Over the central section of North America there hung for weeks a blanket of clear hot dry air under high atmospheric pressure. Because air moves from high to low pressure areas, rainladen breezes from the two oceans were unable to penetrate beyond the rim of the U. S. The sun beat down through cloudless skies to blister the earth. Under normal circumstances low pressure areas known as "cyclonic storms" (not necessarily of "cyclonic" velocity and violence) swing periodically across the land from west to east, sucking in and mixing hot and cold winds, producing rain. This year such beneficent disturbances...
Willingly into the Lobby Investigating Committee room, where some of the Senate's loudest lions roar, a quiet-appearing Daniel last week limped on one crutch, wearing a blue sack suit and old-fashioned "Congress gaiters," peering through rim less glasses. He was Bishop James Cannon Jr., Chairman of the Board of Temperance & Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a man of political prominence whose spiritual loins were somewhat ungirded last month when his church's convention required him to ex press contrition or stand trial for ''bucket shop" gambling (TIME...