Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into both these geological intestinal tracts. During the German occupation they set out each time with stealth, lest their odd-looking apparatus interest the Gestapo. But whenever they reached the secret innards of the mountain, they knew they were safe from human interference. Little by little they explored the underground labyrinth. At last they discovered that if they enlarged a narrow passage between two tunnels, they could break the Italian depth record. Last week they...
...everyone knows, said Blackett, the earth has a magnetic field, but no one has figured out why. The magnetism does not come from iron deep underground, because the earth's core is far too hot to be "ferro-magnetic." As early as 1891, physicists guessed that the magnetism might be due to some inherent property of revolving bodies. They could not prove...
Says Chen with a wry smile: "I had planned to go underground for coal. Instead, I went underground for Communists...
Chou: "In those years when you were working against the Communist Party and I was underground, I once escaped only five minutes before your men arrived. Let me compliment you on your skill...
...operators wrote: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for-not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country. . . ." Such remnants of U.S. Confucianism, however, have gone underground...