Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year Pritchard began to dig (his expedition was financed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a 26-ft.-thick wall surrounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across...
...fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick religious fervor the equal of Rouault...
...with Septuagenarian Stella Dysart, an oil wildcatter, who knew every corner of the 72-sq.-mi. area from her 30 unsuccessful years of oil hunting. Using Stella's drilling logs of rock formations and a rickety, secondhand rig, Lou Lothmann cut down 360 ft. into a 17-ft.-thick seam of uranium on Dysart land. That started the rush. In the past two years, the region around Ambrosia Lake and the neighboring town of Grants has been found to contain more than 65% of all estimated U.S. uranium reserves. Now the area is being built into the nation...
...Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller also grinds out five other Enquirer features: a tearjerker called "Millerdramas," a trade-talky TV column bylined John Jay, "Inside Politics" by James Miljae, "Hollywood Keyhole" by Gene Carter, and a second titter-tattle column over the byline of John Rellim...
...turned out the job was one of the toughest in Big Steel's history. The company had to plant huge towers at the cave and on the rim, sling light cables across the chasm by helicopter, then use them to haul across a 20-ton, 1½-in-thick main cable. In summer, 130° heat down in the canyon made tools so hot they blistered workers' hands. All food and supplies had to be flown in from Los Angeles 435 miles away; some 200 tons of equipment (compressors, hoists, welding machines) was airlifted in pieces and assembled...