Word: seaward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glacial Age ice sheets. Geologist Douglas Johnson of Columbia University last week announced an easier explanation: "sapping" by submerged springs. The Glacial Age rivers deposited great masses of sediment on the sea floor; water was forced through the sediment by hardening or by pressure and oozed out at the seaward face; this process cut the canyons...
Again the anxious men below dodged into their auto, sighted Mingalone three miles farther on, lost him once more while honking their way through a snarl of excited autoists on the Maine backroads. One motorist yelled that Mingalone's course had shifted him seaward. Another had spied him whipping along toward North Kennebunk Port...
...first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their...
...plane made one three-hour flight yesterday, starting at 4:56 a.m. It soared 170 miles out over the Pacific through fog banks, contacting ships to establish its course. Then, with its windows blackened to give complete "blind flying" conditions, it took off at 1:45 p.m. for another seaward flight, returning...
...immense Wurlitzer organ which he cannot play. He collects jade, says, "The greatest luxury I have is the ability to dress in clean clothes complete from the skin out every day." His favorite pastime is sitting on the bottom of the ocean. To this end his 106-ft. schooner Seaward carries a special 80-lb. helmet and metal shoes. Says DeMille: "It's a great way to keep in condition. ... I always return to the surface completely refreshed...