Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raced against Barney Oldfield, the celebrated professional, and lost. The Hugheses moved to Houston, where Hughes Sr. looked for oil. With his partner, Walter Sharp, he struck oil in the Goose Creek field, but the two-edged "fishtail" bits used in those days broke on subterranean rock. Thereupon Hughes designed a conical bit with 166 cutting edges. That tool is the original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts to about $145,000,000. The bit is leased, not sold, and accounts for some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over...
...were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U.S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications...
...House where just about anyone can feel at home, Winthrop has the most heterogeneous population of nay of the dwellings along the Charles. Here athletics, scientists, socialites, and promising novelists rub plastic trays in the subterranean dining halls, and if there is little united spirit, there is instead a rare atmosphere of live-and-let-live...
...life and work of Edwin Arlington Robinson there are plenty of signs that, for all his accomplishment, he never got what he was after. His poetry is racked by tension between its tightly controlled, dry surfaces and a subterranean shouldering towards something grander and more universal than he was able to express...
There was talk of crisis in Mexico City last week. Architect Mario Pani and Engineers Héctor Maganda and Armando Oseli separately warned that the capital was sinking. Through thousands of wells, they said, subterranean water was being pumped out of the old dry lake bed on which the city stands. As a result, the whole city sank more than seven inches last year. The Palace of Fine Arts, already six feet lower than its original level, settled still more. Grades changed as Mexico City drank up its own footing...