Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Laurens ("Daisy") Van Alen, goldplated, blue-haired blue-blood of Newport, engaged a bomb-shelter expert to build a subterranean luxury shelter on her estate with all the comforts of home, air conditioning, special lighting effects, a tunnel to the mansion. She also laid in an eight-year supply of cosmetics...
...three subterranean levels, one passes completely out of the period style of the upper rooms into the stacks, of the very latest design, which will accomodate the great majority of the present total of 10,000 books. Illuminated by blue tubular lights, the stacks are made to attract bequests from private collectors since a section of the shelves can be set off and made into a separate room devoted entirely, to one collection...
Little children should not believe all the long-accepted scientific "facts" that they are taught-hypotheses such as that coal was formed by subterranean heat and pressure when the flooded, lush, swampy forests were buried deep under crushing layers of sediment (which also turned to rock). This particular idea just isn't so, claims Fuel Technologist Walter Maxmilian Fuchs of Pennsylvania State College. The first step had to be taken by bacteria, for except near volcanoes there was never enough heat and pressure on the carboniferous vegetation to transform plants into coal...
Last week baggy, tobacco-strewn Mr. Arnold had nearly finished laying his subterranean mines under the Hutcheson case. First explosion was scheduled for the next fortnight, when the House of Representatives officially returns to work...
...some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station of duty...