Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Governor Marland, now 61 and a bit dumpy, buttoned on his overcoat, went out his front door, trudged across the street to see British American Oil Co.'s No. 1 Piersol well. There they were taking oil at the rate of 500 bbl. an hour out of sand 6,000 ft. under the Executive Mansion. Even politics had at last placed Ernest Whitworth Marland on top of an oil dome...
...basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year...
With a permanent record such as this the ecumenist is given time and material with which to study in detail the varying quality of voices and of musical instruments. Even though the sand note is played on two different instruments, its sound is noticeably different. This difference has been traced by previous experiments to the number, frequency, and strength of the ever tones...
...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...
TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...