Word: rims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating ice rim, came to feed. That the hunters were contemporaries of the animals was perfectly plain because from most of the animal bones the toothsome marrow had been scraped...
...President took the opportunity of inspecting for the first time a gift sent him eight months ago. It was a carved table 10½ ft. in diameter from Filipino Emilio Aguinaldo. Its highly polished top was made of a single piece of hardwood, Philippine red narra. Around its rim were twelve drawers, for the President, Vice President and each member of the Cabinet. Unfortunately, in rebuilding the White House offices the doorway of the Cabinet room was not made large enough to admit the table. Last week with difficulty it was maneuvered into the public lobby of the offices...
...zone of moderate intensity, all the centres of last week's disturbance lay in the areas where severe earthquakes must be expected on the basis of past performance. The major earthquake belt is an irregular band crossing Eurasia from Spain to China and bordering the entire rim of the Pacific...
...little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless they could find some new source of food...
...centrifuge developed by Professor Jesse Wakefield Beams of the University of Virginia with the turbine operated by compressed air, the rotor turning in a vacuum. Rim speeds of 2,000 ft. per sec. and centrifugal forces 900,000 times gravity have been attained...