Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nefertete's bust, also a splendid experiment , found long and deep refuge in the Nile's mud and sand. It was brought to life at last by a German expedition of 1912. Amazingly well-preserved the bust lacks only bits from the ears, a royal viper from the crown and one rock-crystal...
...slides showed some of the choice Japanese gardens, including the famous one that consists only of sand and several rocks strategically placed with characteristic asymmetry...
When a meteor-even if it is no bigger than a grain of sand-hits the earth's atmosphere, it leaves a long trail of ionized particles 60 miles up. Radio communications men have known for years that these trails act as wave reflectors, and they have tried to use them to make certain very short waves, which normally stop at the horizon, carry messages far around the curve of the earth. Chief difficulty was that most of the ionized trails last only a second or so. Before one of them could be located and used as a reflector...
...Stone, sand, gravel: 662,911,000 tons v. 403,100,000 tons last year...
Member of the Wedding. Near Holtville, Calif., after he and his new wife became mired in the sand dunes, Kenneth Marcle dutifully hitchhiked into town for help, returned to find his Chevrolet and bride gone, next morning located his wife in nearby Date City, where she explained that a "nice man" had come along, pushed the car out of the sand and taken her to Mexicali, Mexico for an evening "doing the town...