Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toiled up the heights discovered no key to the mystery. The plane had ploughed into a steep cliff, 50 feet below the top of the hill, had vanished almost as completely as if the fire-blackened rock had opened and engulfed it. There were a few pieces of metal, few larger than a man's hand. Fifty feet from the point of impact lay a golf club and a child's toy train...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...
...comfort upset honeymooners the staid National Geographic Society rushed out a Washington bulletin describing "the thundering crash of hard dolomite rock ... as a normal part of a continuing process." But the voice of calm soon fell on reddened ears. After a closer look at their instruments, Canisius seismologists blurted: "Only a brontide [a low muffled sound caused by feeble earth tremors]." After a closer look at the Falls, Niagara Park Superintendent Francis Seyfried found them undamaged. Said he: "We have checked with the Army engineers and examined pictures and surveys going back...
...bottleneck to the spawning grounds had been the roaring Fraser River chasm called Hell's Gate. Railroad dynamiting in 1913 had spilled tons of rock into the gorge, partially blocking it. Thousands of salmon swimming upstream perished in the turbulent watery so that the number returning four years later was greatly decreased. The loss to the industry was measured in millions annually...
...standards laid down by these officials for themselves are far enough off the rock bottom so that when they admit that out of a total of 2500 active housing applications, some 900 remain unfilled, it does not mean that wives and children are having to sleep on benches in the Common...