Word: rocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because of the "unbelievable" preservation of the specimen found in Illinois, a club moss cone over two hundred million years old, located in Carboniferous rock in Grundy County, scientists may have a new test for the hypothesis that the world's underground stores of petroleum derive from plant life, Darrah said...
Among the species found which were previously entirely unknown, or had not been recorded in the Caribbean region, were black snails, Carabidae beetles, earthworms, locusts, a small rock lizard, a frog, and caterpillars...
...Edge of the World (Joe Rock). Documentary treatment of life on the bare, spray-soaked Scotch island of Foula, proving again, with superb views of Foula's cliff-scrambling denizens, that human existence is most photogenic where it is least cosy...
...bleak Gull Rock, at the Shelburne harbor mouth, Alf Kenney had cause to marvel more. A monster tuna took his bait and for 4½ hr. he learned what it is like to be attached to an animated submarine. Back aching, arms numb, slim Alf Kenney stuck it out, killed his fish and when it tipped official scales at 864 lb., received congratulations on a new world record-13 lb. heavier than the North Sea tuna caught in 1933 by Mitchell Henry of England...
...southeastern sky. Three hundred times larger than the earth, containing more matter than all the other planets combined, Jupiter takes twelve years to complete its ponderous revolution around the sun. Far from the centre of the solar system, Jupiter receives little heat, has a small core of solid rock, surrounded by a frozen ocean, thousands of fathoms deep. Thick clouds hide from astronomers the furious storms that rack the planet, scarring its face with wide bands of purple, red and brown...