Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land...
...Wells. Anthropologist Fairservis doubts the theory. He found that the city got its water not from.distant mountains but from many now dry wells, 60 feet deep, inside the walls. He thinks that a river changed its course, lowering the water table and making the city uninhabitable...
...earth has oceans and land, or why most of its high land masses are concentrated on one side, opposite the Pacific Ocean. If the earth condensed from gases or from meteorlike particles, as many theories have held, it should be smooth and symmetrical with a deep layer of water covering the whole surface...
...Water. Nobel Prizewinner Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago is one of the scientists who has arrived at a new theory of the earth's birth and development. According to Urey, the earth and the moon were formed at the same time out of the primeval dust cloud around the sun. First materials to "precipitate" from the cloud were light stony silicates, which formed the cores of the earth and moon. But the earth's core was bigger than the moon's, and it attracted much more of the heavy iron which precipitated later from...
...this round-the-world ocean, Urey thinks, life evolved a billion and a half years ago. There is no record of these ancient creatures because they were all "pelagic," living at or near the surface of the water. They did not develop heavy, easily preserved shells or skeletons because there was no land or shallow bottom for non-floating forms to live...