Word: shears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greece. Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton has been directing diggers in Greece since 1911, in Athens since 1931. He has laid bare the ancient Athenian agora (market place), brought to light a multitude of priceless relics (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Last month, 50 ft. below the site of the Senate, near the Acropolis, he came upon a Mycenaean cemetery which he dated at 1500 B. C. Surrounded by wine jars, remains of food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might...
Three kinds of earthquake waves speed through the earth from the epicentre. Fastest are P (Push) waves which travel about 5 mi. per sec. They take a nearly straight path through the earth to the recording station. Then come the S (Shear) waves which make about 3 mi. per sec., follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they...
Well did all Senators know that these amendments would kill the effectiveness of the bill and cause the courts to declare it unconstitutional. But Cotton States' Senators were afraid to vote against it, hoped to shear off the amendments in conference with the House...
...discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace, men under Princeton's Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear sifted 23,000 tons of earth, turned up 15,000 coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre...
This problem has long been a Gordian knot for which the dull wits of the responsible officials have been no cleaving sword. But a simple man and true, an honest yardcop, the flower of Colonel Apted's force, could shear the tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation...