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...have long thought that earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of strain (distortion) in the earth's crust. Dr. Benioff studied the records of all major earthquakes since 1904 and made a chart of their "strain-rebound" characteristics. Somewhat to his surprise, the chart made a regular, sawtooth pattern, with the teeth getting smaller and lower as the diagram approached...
...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S. It rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...
...thousand miles away, beneath Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains in glossy Sun Valley, Utah's team skied to victory last week in the West's intercollegiate championship meet against 125 entrants from 25 colleges. What looked to be the biggest & best U.S. ski season on record had begun...
...brisk south wind was scattering tiny white clouds across the blue sky above Atsugi airfield when the first U.S. troops landed. Tall grass, dancing in the wind, cast sawtooth patterns on the ground...
...fighter plane with teeth that work-suggested by the sharks' teeth painted on the Flying Tigers' P-4OS. The plane has a retractable sawtooth bar which can be thrust out below the wings to cut an enemy plane to pieces. One of its two inventors is Brigadier General Robert Kauch of the Army Air Forces...