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...almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite plunged on underground, shattered the rock strata into rubble, came to rest at last 1,200 or 1,500 ft. below the surface...
...Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...most casual observer that Mr. Roosevelt is following in his whole career the best traditions of American statesmanship; and that-and this conclusion is directly due to Dr. Jung's own theories!-the American people would not be so overwhelmingly confident in Mr. Roosevelt, particularly not the intellectual strata, if there was even the slightest evidence of an Adlerian "power complex...
...this conjecture about our 'not reaching certain strata' simply will not hold water. . . . The basis of the 1936 mailing-list was the 1932 mailing-list, and since the overwhelming majority of those who responded to our Poll in 1932 voted for Mr. Roosevelt, it seems altogether reasonable to assume that the majority of our ballots this year went to people who had voted for Roosevelt in 1932. . . . So what? So we were wrong, although we did everything we knew to assure ourselves of being right...
...current: 1) hill-deflected winds, 2) thermal currents from warm spots on the ground, 3) upcurrents under cumulus clouds, 4) explosive updrafts preceding a thunderstorm. At Elmira, long ago selected as the best soaring spot in the U. S. because its prevailing west winds are deflected upwards in successive strata by the huge petrified surf of the Chemung Hills, soarers last week camped in tents below the knolls from which their ships were launched, helped each other tinker their craft, chattered over picnic fires. Major topic of three-dimensional sailing enthusiasts, like that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because...