Word: subterranean
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past half a century, a good part of Mexico City's surface has been sinking. Engineers believe that a subterranean lake below the capital's site has been drying up and, in the process, bringing down the level of the settlement above it (TIME, June 9). The city is now lower than its immediate environs-though, as inhabitants jokingly point out, it is still more than 7,300 ft. above sea level-and the archaic drainage system is out of kilter. As a result, rainwater lingers on. The periodic rain gluts have grown worse in recent years. Last...
...crowded old Washington Street, look about as quaint as its makeup. Grozier kept it that way because he did not want to change its old-fashioned appearance. When he needed more room, he dug it out underground, equipped the Post with a modern plant whose presses spread through five subterranean floors. One of the paper's major handicaps has been the advertising edge enjoyed by its competitors (Globe, Herald and Trawler, Hearst's Record and American), which have both morning & afternoon editions, enforce "combination" advertising rates for both. If a recent court decision finding such enforced rates...
...greatest treasure hunt in U.S. history is in full cry. Above the green of North Dakota wheatfields rise the spidery towers of oil-drilling rigs. On the plains of Utah, shirt-sleeved crews set off dynamite blasts and, from the vibrations, map the subterranean oil-bearing strata. Over Alabama cottonfields fly planes with strange; antenna-like tails, which pick up magnetic waves and thus record geological formations below. In West Texas, wildcatters, trucks loaded with tools, inch across the prairies like gypsy caravans...
...depicting the deification of Couperin's idol, Jean Baptiste Lully. This is program music at its most imaginative. Each of the twelve sections has an elaborate title (such as Lully in the Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin duet called Air Leger, one violinist is playing in French style to represent Lully, while the other plays in the Italian manner, representing Corelli...
...April 1950, Yard cop John Fitzgerald discovered a nondescript band of students inside the subterranean steam tunnels. Knowing his duty, he chased them--all the way from Adams House to Lowell. When he discovered that they were only members of the Harvard Outing Club on a guided tour, he began to leave. But he had gone too far and promptly lost his way. The HOC had to lead...