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...other factors contribute toward excessive rainfall. One is that the polar winds have been recurring in blasts, rather than blowing in a steady stream. This allows the warm air to form in a thicker layer between blasts, concentrating precipitation...
TIME continues to be my favorite News Magazine for the simple reason that I want the news. Some of the news is unpleasant to take, especially for a Minister of the Gospel-but I can take it. I was born a Britisher, and as blood is thicker than water, I still have a warm place in my heart for the British Isles. For this reason the escapades of King Edward VIII, and especially his relations with Mrs. Simpson, while almost revolting to a strict Churchman, seem to me to have a far deeper significance than that which is generally attributed...
...crowd is getting thicker...
...Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason for such miraculous preservation but he thought it possible that the little body had fallen into the edge of a pond or puddle and been covered quickly with protecting sand. No attempt will be made to reassemble the skeleton...
Previously, the cross-sections taken were much thicker and darker and could not be magnified beyond 60 diameters. The new process, perfected by William Darrah, instructor in Botany, reveals the cellular construction of fossils with heretofore unequalled clearness...