Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heezen thinks that the Atlantic Ocean is a very old crack that has rifted over and over and grown 3,000 miles wide. Its sides may still be moving apart at the rate of about one yard in 1,000 years. At the other extreme are young rifts like those in East Africa that have not had time to split more than once. Eventually they may grow into oceans as wide...
Small Plot. In San Diego, the Union ran a classified ad: "Girl, pet, share my studio cottage, yard. No work...
Tipped off by the Dum Dum arrests and by Hong Kong police, who discovered the names of BOAC employees among the records of a suspect Hong Kong "businessman," BOAC moved in its security chief, a former Scotland Yard detective named Donald ("Flying") Fish. He discovered that some crew members carried jewels, jade, but chiefly easily disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that...
...grimy familiarity, Epstein found himself an accepted eccentric. Acceptance slowly turned to deep respect, and in 1954 the old volcano became "Sir Jacob." A new generation of sculptors was shocking the public in its turn, with carvings full of holes, welded metal totems, and assemblies from the junk yard. Epstein by contrast came to seem imbued with Semitic melancholy, soft-edged and almost oldfashioned...
...statement as to the existence or nonexistence of these diaries." In time another theory gained wide currency: that Casement had merely copied detailed descriptions of homosexual practices from the writings of a cruel employer in Peru whose exposure had helped win Casement his knighthood. According to this theory, Scotland Yard had forged Casement's handwriting in places, so that his copied descriptions would appear to be autobiographical...