Word: cataclysms
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...substituted the old (LEFT CENTRE RIGHT). With heads like rock and feet like sheep, the human debris of the last quake quaked again, until the official seating arrangement was finally restored. Thus it was learnt that a class in geology can take an active part in a first-class cataclysm, and still have half an hour left for sleep or for hearing a lecture on the character and ancestors of the responsible Mr. Fate, who slyly escaped the danger zone...
...Santa Monica. All goes well until, some distance from land, he catches sight of Sylvia swimming beside him, without a bathing suit; he sinks without a trace. Mrs. Forgate poisons Dache. Just in time Author Roanoke goes back to New England : a few days later a last and greatest cataclysm swallows up California...
This dramatic cataclysm was prosaically described last week in an effort to show that it was true. Its describer was Dr. Alexander Du Toit of Johannesburg who, defending the widely held ''displacement hypothesis," brought into court recent studies of fossils, glacial records and sedi mentary rocks of southern lands now separated by water. So much alike are these records at corresponding stages, urged Dr. Du Toit, that they must have been deposited in one undivided land. But the geological record of the southern hemisphere as a whole is utterly different from that of the northern-which would show...
...when the Memphis Appeals were bought from the receivers by James Thomas Hammond Jr., publisher of Hearst's Detroit Times. The stolid, conservative Commercial Appeal (''Largest Circulation in the South"-111,000), is so deeply rooted in affairs of the South that even the Lea-Caldwell cataclysm failed to shake it. Good-looking Publisher Hammond, 40, was back on home soil. He had been brought up in Tennessee, got to be a bank vice president in Arkansas whence he was hired in 1922 by Lord & Taylor. Manhattan department store, as its treasurer. Five years later he became...
DOCUMENTS OF MURDER-T. C. H. Jacobs-Macaulay ($2). Fiend Bronkhorst, master spy, kills casually thrice a day. Scotland Yard and Secret Service, hand in hand, win through in time to prevent world cataclysm...