Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more than the nursery rhyme about why the earth has oceans and land, or why most of its high land masses are concentrated on one side, opposite the Pacific Ocean. If the earth condensed from gases or from meteorlike particles, as many theories have held, it should be smooth and symmetrical with a deep layer of water covering the whole surface...
Within the last few years a wealth of new information-from seismology, astronomy and nuclear physics-has been brought to bear on the problem. Scientists are beginning to explain why the earth is not too smooth for such land animals as man to live...
...iron had precipitated, the earth was a solid, fairly cool but basically unstable object. In its center was a ball of comparatively light rock. Around the rock was a thick layer of mixed iron and stone. Then came a very thin layer of stone. The whole great ball was smooth and symmetrical, with no land. Deep ocean covered the whole surface...
...Eliot's smooth T attack, though stymied a number of times by the scrappy Commuters in the second period, showed its usual display of scoring plays. The Elephants displayed their power in the first minute of the game after Rick Budner ran the opening kickoff 50 yards to the Commuter ten. Two plays later Pete Reiner went off left end to score standing...
...Coldspot refrigerator, an ugly machine with a dust trap under its spindly legs, and corrugated shelves inside. Loewy moved the motor, from top to bottom, chopped off the legs, and installed the first non-rusting aluminum shelves ever to be used in a refrigerator. The Coldspot became a single smooth, gleaming unit of functional simplicity-and with it Sears' sales shot up five-fold by 1936. Loewy had been paid only $2,500 for the job (and had spent nearly three times that in expenses), but Sears was glad to pay him $25,000 for his next...