Word: terraine
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...Odell, Lecturer on Geology, to complete his investigation into static metamorphism by studying the Shuswap terrain of British Columbia...
...longer exerts a lifting power in forward motion. This trouble and decreased visibility due to fog or snow will bring down the best of pilots. The airmail route between Cleveland and New York is considered the worst in the country, with few landing fields, rugged and forest-covered terrain...
...pipe was secondhand. The same troops, in fighting over the same terrain last spring in the War of Farm Relief, had laid it down as a means of pumping U. S. cash to the farmers. When they were driven out of the lowlands, they carried their Export Debenture pipe along with them in retreat. Now it was down again, by a larger vote than ever before...
...wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...
...America, Russia and the European capitals and to many a monk and nomad of Central Asia, returned to Manhattan last week. With him was his son George, Harvard orientalist. More than four years they have spent ranging through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark, deep-eyed men went to gaze raptly at his paintings. In Manhattan...