Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners in Nevada's mountains, some 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas, heard a terrific explosion, saw a vivid flash near the top of Table Rock Mountain...
...said that in California, another active quake region, buildings are anchored to solid rock which shifts less than sand or gravel foundation bases...
Atom-smashing machines-once the mysterious toys of theoretical physicists-have recently been put to everyday metallurgical chores: > In assaying ores, Geologists at M.I.T. have announced that when a sample of rock is bombarded with neutrons (heavy nuclear particles) from the cyclotron, some elements in the ore become radioactive and give off particles which can be detected either 1) on a photographic film in contact with the ore, or 2) with a Geiger counter, an instrument which clicks or marks a tape as each particle shoots through it. Since each element has a unique rate of radioactive decay (e.g., radioactivity...
Kenneth Henderson '26, of the American Alpine Club, showed movies of rock climbs in the While Mountains. These pictures included scenes of several climbs that the Club has recently made or is going to undertake for the first time in several years. The new climbs were made possible by the unusually large number of leaders in the Club this year...
...Fortress. It was Corregidor that the Jap wanted most. Until its 12 in. guns are silenced, until the troops are bombed out of galleries bored through solid rock in the rearing head of the tadpole, the Jap can never hope to sail his ships into Manila Bay. For south of Corregidor it is only seven miles to the other shore of the harbor's mouth...