Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest Sky and Telescope magazine described a great meteor crater recently identified at Wolf Creek in the dry wilderness 400 miles inland from Broome, Western Australia. From ground level the crater is not impressive. Its rim looks like a low, rocky ridge above a featureless plain. Apparently the few who have passed near it hardly ever gave it a second glance...
...geologists, Dr. Frank Reeves and N. B. Sauve of the Vacuum Oil Co., spotted the crater from an airplane. What they saw was a circular depression more than half a mile across and 100 ft. deep, with a splashed-out looking rim. In general appearance it looked much like Arizona's meteor crater (570 ft. deep, four-fifths of a mile in diameter...
...Harvard," described the aspect of these gladiators flowers. As time passed, these contents "The Class, before so gentlemanly in appearance, stood transformed into a rabble of rowdyish and seedy-looking characters." Lowell agreed with this descriptive, remarking that "the Senior class are distinguished by the various shapes of eccentric rim displayed in their hats...
Swimmer Ris was in Florida. At Daytona Beach's Welch Pools, he sized up his competition for the National A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last...
...telescope's most serious trouble is a "bulge" in the massive mirror. The outer edge, 18 inches inward from the rim, is 20 millionths of an inch too high. This infinitesimal error, observable only by the most refined tests, is enough to make the telescope useless for serious astronomical purposes. Until it is removed or corrected, the distant nebulae a billion or so light-years away will keep their privacy...