Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia. A bulletin board replaces the radiator grid...
...Tethys Deep" was bridged by Central America was indicated by Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra. With the cooling and shrinking of earth's underlying shell of magmatic (semifluid) rock, the northern and southern land masses drew toward each other. Pinched between them, the bottom of the "Tethys Deep" wrinkled, bulged upward, finally, as the pressure increased, emerged from the water to form a bridge...
Petrofabrics. Whether terrestrial or cosmic, the forces that built the Alps tied them into complicated kinks. Bruno Sander, a native of the Austrian Tyrol and professor at the University of Innsbruck, described his method of studying the kinks. Specimens of crystalline rock were ground to paper thinness, peered at under the microscope where the force lines spring to view. By plotting hundreds of force lines from different parts of a mountain, he deduces the slidings and thrustings that formed the mountain. He calls his method petrofabrics, thinks it may prove useful in locating ore veins...
...Rock Chart. Toward the close of the Congress, Chief Geologist Dr. Timothy William Stanton of the U. S. Geological Survey proudly exhibited a variegated rectangle 87x51 in.-an elaborate chart of all U. S. rocks, in 23 colors arranged in 160 units. It summarized the Survey's work since 1879. filled a long-felt need of schools. Said Dr. Stanton: "In 1911 we had a map, but it was far less complete and detailed. Also for more than 15 years past it has been out of print...
...late city crowds. General Italo Balbo, who had been caught in a traffic jam while trying to reach the field, waved from his car as they shot by. At the Hotel Roosevelt a physician found Post's condition good, noted that his hand was steady as a rock...