Word: sweeping
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Since the oil-forming sediments and the underlying salt sweep beyond the coastline where domes abound, the oil geologists reasoned that there should be domes under the Gulf, too. They took their instruments to sea and found that the salt domes march, rank upon rank, to the edge of the continental shelf, more than 100 miles from land...
...feet in the mud), they are cut off even with the jacket's cylinders. Then a prefabricated deck is jockeyed into position on top of the jacket. The final result is a firmly braced platform high enough above the surface so that hurricane waves can sweep harmlessly below...
Stargazing. A Junior Planetarium that projects 40 major constellations and 300 stars on the ceiling and walls of a darkened room is being sold by Harmonic Reed Corp. of Rosemont, Pa. The midget planetarium can be adjusted to different latitudes and dates, can simulate the nightly sweep of the stars. Price...
...eclipse. The path of totality (i.e., the ground covered by the tip of the moon's pointed shadow) will start in northeastern Nebraska, where the sun will be blotted out by the moon just as it rises. A little later, at 5:08 a.m., C.S.T., the shadow will sweep at 3,000 m.p.h. over Minneapolis, where totality will last 1 min. 10 sec. Then it will cross Lake Superior and head for Labrador, just grazing the southern end of Hudson...
...Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting's triple crown: the Puritan, Astor and King's Cups. A shrewd lawyer and financier, he raised Harvard's investments from $13 million to $120 million in 30 years as treasurer, made his alma mater the most heavily endowed university...