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...raid shelters, dug deep into the chalk strata at the site, will be an added safety feature. The entire hospital has been designed to minimize dangers of flying glass and other air raid hazards...
Shale and sandstone strata bearing dinosaur tracks have been known in Massachusetts' Connecticut Valley region for a long time. The South Hadley bed was found in 1933 by blond, blue-eyed Carlton Nash, who had been fossil-fascinated since childhood. The shale crops out near a wooded, winding road popular with Mount Holyoke College girls and their swains. For six years the brothers kept their secret, then bought two acres from a utility company which owned them. They got to work with broom, sledge and chisel, circulated neat little advertising folders. By last week, nearing the end of their...
...that Harvard is now in an idealistic age, whereas during the rest of the term its culture is sensate. They will surely take note of Harvard's sharply stratified society, the two great classes, students and Faculty. They will say, "During the exam period the relationship of these two strata of society undergoes its profoundest change." It is strange they haven't thought of making such a study before this. From the sociologist's standpoint, it has everything...
...Parisians viewed with satisfaction their "artificial fog" defense-strata of titanium tetrachloride (used in skywriting) laid over the city by planes, blown over it from towers...
...keynote of these artists is that "the mood of the country dominates its painters," and Wells is one who is strongly under the singular spell of the region. The seemingly unreal colors and the patterns of curving rock strata have been used by him as the basis for powerful and intricate designs. The Death Valley and Otowi landscapes are done in a swirling, rhythmic manner with different tones of brown which emphasize the bare aridness of the scene. The view of Pajaritc seems to indicate the influence of Cezanne upon Wells in the development of solid forms and is much...