Word: underlain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above sea level. Last week the best look yet beneath the Pole came from the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., seismologist, burly professor of geophysics at Boston College and onetime (1923) guard on a good B.C. football team. Jesuit Linehan's findings: the Pole is underlain by rock above sea level...
...away from the Republicans those Eisenhower Democrats who last year helped Ike win Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress. Too late, Democrats last week were beginning to suspect that by attempting to be all things to all factions in the field of civil rights they had faubused badly...
Oilmen from coast to coast awoke to what Phillips and Home Oil had suspected: the entire area from Great Slave south to Lesser Slave Lake and west to the Rockies, some 100,000 sq. mi. in all, was probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
Irrigation water is generally considered dubious if it contains more than 1,400 parts of salt per million. Plant Physiologist Gordon T. Nightingale of Hawaii regretted this limit, because the Hawaiian Islands have a lot of arid land underlain by abundant water that is considerably more brackish. So he undertook to find out whether the salt limit could be exceeded under Hawaiian conditions...