Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, has measured velocities of 5.2 miles per second for "push" waves, a form imparting back and forward motion, which were travelling in the msterious upper mantle layer 21 miles below the surface of the earth. This is 1,440 miles per hour faster than any velocities yet recorded for this layer, and cannot be explained in terms of any familiar geological material or present theories about conditions of heat and pressure in the upper mantle layer...
...Benioff Seismographs, most sensitive of any, at the station on Oak Ridge, Harvard, Mass., have been used by Dr. Lect to study the New England upper crust in collaberation with the Dominican Observatory, Ottawa, Williams College, Weston College, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By measurements of quake waves of both the "Push" and "Throb" variety, Dr. Lect has determined that the New England top layer consists of nine miles of hard granite...
Bernard De Vote '18, editor of the "Easy Chair" of Harper's Magazine, will make same remarks on the literature of American history as the first speaker in the Freshman American Civilization series of discussions. The meeting will be at 7:15 o'clock in the Union Upper Common Room...
Best all-round rubber tree is Brazil's Hevea brasiliensis, and for decades Pará was another name for rubber. As world demand arose, grew, skyrocketed, upper Amazon adventurers rose to be bloody kings and barons. Their technique was simple: enslavement, torture, rape, starvation and murder, plus a fantastic use of company-store methods that had washerwomen in sleazy evening gowns and everybody in debt till the year after eternity. Hundreds of miles up the jungle rivers they fought feudal wars with one another. At the height of the rubber boom in 1909-10, rubber...
Last week the first tonic shipments in three months reached Kunming, upper terminus of the Burma Road. Reports differed as to how steadily the shipments would flow. The Japanese claimed hits on a vital bridge over the Mekong River; the Chinese said that no hits had registered and that new, giant ten-wheel trailer trucks were carrying the stuff of war into China faster than ever. But whatever the rate of future shipments, last week's token arrivals were worth their weight in dead Japanese...