Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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CENTER: KEN MENDENHALL, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 1 in., 235 lbs. For three years Mendenhall's specialty has been coming quickly off the ball to open a hole for Steve Owens' patented power dives. The scouts say that he will have to put on another 15-20 lbs. of...
It is apparent from a glance at the map: the earth's continents can be made to fit together like parts of a giant jigsaw puzzle. Yet for years most scientists stoutly resisted the conclusion that some time in the remote past, the earth's land masses began...
Discoveries of the past few years have now turned skeptics into believers. Scientists have not only uncovered the basic mechanism that moves continents, but are becoming increasingly convinced that it provides explanations of many fundamental mysteries about the earth. What causes earthquakes? How are mountain ranges formed? The answers have...
In making their case for continental drift, scientists used some obvious evidence: geological strata in South America that matched those of West Africa in areas where the continents might have been joined; fossils of plants and animals from one continent that were identical to those on another, even though they...
Missing Deposit. More subtle clues came out of the ocean depths, although few scientists at first recognized their importance. By 1959, Columbia University's marine geologists had completed charting a mysterious 47,000-mile-long chain of undersea mountains and ridges that twist through the middle of the major...