Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amazon region is tough to explore on the surface, and almost unknown geologically. But both the Amazon and the towering Andes were covered some 200 million years ago by the same shallow sea. An unexplained disturbance wrinkled the earth's crust. The western part of the sea bottom was lifted high in the air, where its sedimentary strata lie exposed today. The rest (toward the east) is still deeply buried under the tangled jungle...
...Million to a Quart. At first, fishermen made big hauls of redfish, mullet, and grouper, which fled into the shallow bays and inlets to escape the plague. But their catches stayed in the fish houses. People did not feel like eating fish...
Modesty. In Romance, Sask., while bathing in a shallow pond, a well-lathered native heard approaching sounds, waited for the buggy and passengers to pass by while he stood his ground, a bucket modestly covering his unlathered head...
Hook. In Texarkana, Ark., Dr. J. A. Little golfed to the shallow part of a water hazard, took a healthy swing, nib-licked high & dry one four-pound bass...
Nervous Knockout. Deep-sea divers generally have been fed pure oxygen and helium, pumped to a pressure matching the depth of their dive. Divers sometimes unaccountably passed out during relatively shallow dives (up to four atmospheres of pressure used to be considered safe). The British study, involving some 2,000 tests, proved that oxygen, forced into the tissues under pressure, somehow intoxicates the central nervous system and poisons the brain cortex. (Whales, biologists have observed, bypass the whole oxygen problem by collapsing their lungs during deep dives...