Word: rim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final test, a magnetometer survey, was hastily completed just before the quick-coming arctic winter was about to close down. The scientists carried a sensitive magnetometer all around the crater, charting the magnetic lines of force. Under the northern rim they found what they were looking for: a "magnetic anomaly" indicating that a large mass of metal-bearing material lies buried far below the surface...
Viewed from the canyon's high rim, the dam looks too small to create, as it will, a patch of mottled green land nearly as big as Connecticut. But all modern irrigation dams look small when compared with what they do. They accomplish their ends by geographical judo, playing on the weaknesses of their rivers...
...Rim is hopeful that some day his country will be unified. "Then we will have a Korean type of government fashioned after the democratic nations. I am very anxious for a unified central government once more, and for U.N. help in our program. I hope many American young men and women will come in and help with our education, social, and missionary work," he commented...
...Rim was strong in his support of Syngham Rhee '10, President of the South Korean government. He maintained that Rhee is merely being used as a scapegoat in the present struggle. Rhee was elected, Rim said, by popular vote because the people backed him. Now an unfair attempt is being made to place all the blame upon his shoulders...
...Rim is one of the 400 Korean students who are attending American universities, and one of the 50 who are receiving financial aid from either the Korean government or from our state department. All the men and women are intending to return to their native land to lead the rebuilding movement. While here, though, Mr. Rim finds the hospitality and the spirit of friendship pervading the University very enjoyable. "I am very happy with the people here. The only trouble is that I eat too much ice-cream...