Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...school of oceanography at Wood's Hole has been founded with the gift of $2,500,000 granted by the Rockefeller Foundation at the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences. One million is to be used to build and equip the school, $1,000,000 for a permanent endowment fund, and $500,000 as a special operating fund for the first decade, to be paid in annual installments...
Given this impetus the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has been incorporated and chartered, a paper organization projected, and a ship ordered. Already the shell of the four story building which will house the laboratories and administrative offices of the institute has been completed. It is expected to be ready for occupancy by the summer...
...choice of Woods Hole as the site for the headquarters of the new institution was reached only after a careful consideration of all other possible situations along the Atlantic Coast of North America. The final decision was based on the combined advantages of close proximity to two world-famed laboratories of marine biology, and on the exceptional opportunity for illustrative investigations that is offered by the neighboring waters...
...Woods Hole Ideal Place...
...first of these inducements needs no explanation. The second depends in part upon the ease with which the transition from inshore to offshore waters can be reached from Woods Hole, on the abruptness of that transition, and on proximity to the continental slope and abyss. At the same time, the Gulf of Maine, close at hand with its tributaries, offers a more promising field for intensive investigations into the interaction between the physical-chemical and the biologic aspects of Oceanography than any other sector of comparable extent along the coast of America. The thermal diversity, regional, bathymetric and seasonal...