lie
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lie1 a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on proverbial saying, mid 19th century; the speed with which falsehood travels was a classical commonplace, as in the line from Virgil's
Aeneid, ‘Rumour, than whom no other evil thing is faster’. (Virgil's passage is alluded to in the Introduction to Shakespeare's
2 Henry IV (1598), which begins with the stage direction, ‘Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues.’)
See also
ask no questions and hear no lies, Father of Lies at father,
half the truth is often a whole lie,
white lie.
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NASA EARTH SCIENCE:MARCIA MCNUTT
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 4/28/2005; 700+ words
; ...Within those mission areas, projects compete with other like projects, but it would be unfair to...high risk, long-lead time projects. Through experience, we...by the large, long-term project by respecting the percentage...lesson the hard way through the Mohole Project in the 1960s. ...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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WILLARD BASCOM, A PIONEER OF DEEP-SEA EXPLORATION
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/20/2000; ; 620 words
; ...California Coastal Water Research Project, died Sept. 20 at his home...organized and directed Project Mohole, the pioneering attempt to...Mr. Bascom detailed the Mohole experience, later abandoned...the Sea: The Story of the Mohole Project." The many-faceted...
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Discovery of "megamullions" reveals gateways into the ocean crust and upper mantle.
Magazine article from: Oceanus; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the 1950s and resulted in the "Mohole project," whose objective was to sample...Earth's crust and mantle. The Mohole project proved to be ahead of its...several thousand meters of water. Mohole was succeeded beginning in the late...
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Peek into the earth.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 11/5/2002; 700+ words
; ...began in 1958 and ended in 1966. "Project Mohole" was to be Earth sciences' answer...wins 'inner space' race Project Mohole's goal was to reach the point...thinnest on the ocean floor, Project Mohole began drilling off the coast of...
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCIENTIST ON SHIPBOARD TEAM THAT ACHIEVES SCIENTIFIC FIRST
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...have pursued for over 40 years, since the days of Project MoHole," said Damon Teagle, National Oceanography Centre...mountains, and leads to earthquakes and volcanoes." Project MoHole, begun in the 1950s, endeavored to drill all the...
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George Shor, 86, early researcher of plate tectonicsG. Shor, pioneering geophysicist
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/13/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...research vessels, was a principal in the abortive Project Mohole to drill deep into the Earth, and played a key role...ships throughout the world. In the 1950s, he joined Project Mohole, which was designed to retrieve a sample of material...
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 "The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)")
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Noted geophysicist studied ocean floor; George Shor, leader in plate tectonics; Obituary.(NWSunday)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA); 7/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...research vessels, was a principal in the abortive Project Mohole to drill a hole deep into the Earth. He also played...ships throughout the world. In the 1950s, he joined Project Mohole, which was designed to retrieve a sample of material...
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Drilling shortcut penetrates Earth's mantle. (National Science Foundation's Ocean Drilling Program)
Magazine article from: Science News; 2/20/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...1950s, when leading oceanographers conceived "Mohole," a megascience project aimed at drilling straight through the 6-kilometer...cost overruns and political problems sank the Mohole project soon after it began. To drill through the entire...
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An abridged history of deep ocean drilling. (25 Years of Ocean Drilling)
Magazine article from: Oceanus; 12/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...of this tumultuous period. The Mohole As near as can be reconstructed...successfully. Thus, the AMSOC Mohole project was born. Willard Bascom (a specialist...staff) became majordomo of the project and immediately set off to prove...
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SCIENTISTS DELVE INTO SECRETS OF THE OCEAN'S CRUST, ACHIEVE SCIENTIFIC 'FIRST'
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...was the JOIDES Resolution; the project was managed by the Integrated Ocean...over 40 years, since the days of Project MoHole," said Damon Teagle of the National...earthquakes and volcanoes. Project MoHole, begun in the 1950s, endeavored...
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Project Mohole
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Project Mohole program proposed in 1957 to drill a hole down to the boundary...design, along with deepwater drilling technology developed for Project Mohole, were employed in the Deep Sea Drilling Project and future drilling projects.
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Hess, Harry Hammond (1906-1969)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...influential backer of the ill-fated "Project Mohole," which proposed to drill a hole...dollars in federal funding, Project Mohole foundered in 1966 under rising costs...miscellaneous" ideas, such as Project Mohole. From 1962 until his death, Hess...
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Oceanography: Seafloor Spreading
Book article from: American Decades
...ocean floor until the mantle was reached — a "mohole." Moholes would have to be twenty-five to forty...that paid to have the former navy barge converted for Project Mohole, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences under...
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basalt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...found by samples of lava flows found in drill cores recovered by vessels of the Deep Sea Drilling Project and the now defunct Project Mohole (see Mohole, Project ). Basalt contains a high percentage of iron and magnesium. Some basalts are porphyritic...
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Ocean Drilling Program
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...scientific ocean drilling projects. Their inspiration was the Mohole Project of the early 1960s. This...to the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), which began in...comprises a single scientific project. By the time ODP ends in...
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