Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnetism pointed in an entirely different direction. The south-seeking ends of the magnetic particles were pointing downward as the needles of "dip circle" compasses do in the southern hemisphere. The ancient Maryland rocks acted magnetically as if they had been formed nearer to the southern magnetic pole (in Antarctica) than to the northern one (in Canada...
...vultures" for their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...
During his stay in Antarctica on the "Operation High Jump," Foster shot over 20,000 feet for the movie. The show's cast consists for the 4,000 men from the U.S. Navy who sailed with Byrd. Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, and Van Heflin speak the commentary...
...Wolfson of Northwestern University advances his explanation: that they are led astray by the earth's fickle geology. According to a fairly well established theory, says Dr. Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans and the land...
Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo...