Word: lake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success angry members of the U.N. Trusteeship Council, which was supposed to establish the international regime over Jerusalem, called for a strong stand against Israel's truculence. Ben-Gurion's government meanwhile was carrying on independent negotiations with Jordan's cunning King Abdullah, whose Arab Legionnaires patrolled Jerusalem's Old City, a stone's throw from the blue & white flag flying over Ben-Gurion's headquarters in the Eden Hotel...
When silt sinks slowly to the bottom of an ocean or lake, the magnetic particles in it line up with the earth's magnetic field like tiny compass needles. When the silt hardens into rock, the magnetic particles are "frozen" so that they cannot move. The Carnegie scientists found that even when the rock layer is folded by geological forces, the magnetic particles keep their alignment, pointing accurately around the curves of the folds. Even in layers known to be 200 million years old, the rock keeps its magnetism...
...promote this ambitious program, N.A.M. followed its recent policy of picking a small businessman as president. Its choice: handsome, athletic Claude Adams Putnam, 59, head of the 200-man Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H., who succeeds Salt Lake City's Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single...
While Nicholas K. Trynin '52, stood resplendent in a raccoon coat at one end of Wellesley College Lake, C. France McCoy '52 stationed himself at the other shore. The four Wellesley lasses, viewing the proceedings from an indeterminate mid-point, decided the two men looked like...