Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast Tuscarora Deep, lying off the Pacific shore, sends out earthquake shocks which regularly rock the country. During the first 13 years of scientific recording, Japan averaged three and a half seismic shocks a day. The eastern shores of the main islands are slowly rising out of the Pacific; the western shores are slowly sinking into the Sea of Japan. There are 200 volcanoes, 50 of them still active. Storms constantly sweep the islands' 5,500 miles of shoreline...
...citizen carefully not selected was Marshall Field, whose Chicago Sun fights the Tribune on everything. Growled crusty Lawyer Silas H. Strawn, who headed a committee, composed mostly of rock-ribbed reactionaries, that arranged the affair: "This isn't a Marshall Field dinner-we are not peddling tickets all around town. This party is being paid for by some of us fools who are friends of the Colonel, and it isn't hard to see he has a lot of them...
...what the boys make on their regular jobs. The backer dropped the idea, and Brick was relieved. "We don't want any commercialism," he said. "We're a self-endowed institution . . . a little college. . . . It's mutual learning [as to] what will make us jump or rock or ride better...
...Haldane reconstructs cosmic history, the galaxies in their present form are some 500 billion years old; the earth and other planets began to part from the sun about 400 billion years ago; solidification came much later (the oldest known rock is a mere four billion years old); life on earth was impossible before three billion...
...easy byplay between Kelly's rock-solid acting, which carries the show and is as sure as anything in pictures, and Sinatra's gently amateurish pseudo-goofiness, with its engaging echoes of Stan Laurel...