Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through to the prisoners. Hard rock smashed the drill-bits. The mine pump failed. It was 153 hours...
...Mauna Loa eruption may have been a blessing in disguise. It doubtless took subterranean pressure away from Kilauea and Mauna Kea, the neighboring volcanoes, whose eruptions would be truly catastrophic to the many settlers near them...
...Senator Reed had referred to the well known Italian debacle during the War when Italian soldiers, expecting to meet Austrians with whom they had made a subterranean truce, encountered ferocious Germans. The Senator cast no aspersions upon Italians...
State geologists sped to the scene, not knowing beforehand whether to attribute the subsidence to dissolving limestone strata over subterranean caverns, or to some extinct volcano's clearing its throat and swallowing. When Geologist G. S. Lambert arrived, the volcano theory was discarded. He called attention to the nature of a round lake some six miles away, called Old Maid's Pool. From its formation, it had evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble...
...saving methods. Henry L. Doherty, gas expert, maintained oil was being burned wastefully, produced wastefully. His researches show that oil pools should be operated as units to maintain below ground the pressure of gasses dissolved in petroleum, making it more fluid. Much oil is now lost on subterranean sands whence it cannot be extracted because of its viscosity when released from gas pressure...