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...Lett, assistant Professor of Geology, leaves tomorrow for Charleston, S.C., where he will carry out revolutionary experiments on the seismic method of determining geologic structure...
Thanks to the generosity of a friend of geology at Harvard that department has at its disposal a 6000 foot oil well near Charleston. Although the well never yielded any oil, it may now be the means of bringing forth something far more important than oil. It may produce a far-reaching, scientific discovery, which will profoundly influence oil prospecting and the recording of earthquakes...
Joseph G. Allen, Huntington, West Virginia; Gordon E. Jones, Olympia, Washington; Charles W. Hayden, Kansas City, Missouri; Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn, New York; John E. Adams, Berkeley, California; Samuel E. Elmore Jr., Spindale, North Carolina; Henry B. Ruley, Louisville, Kentucky; Robert P. Tucker, Charleston, South Carolina; Lucio E. Gatto, Cambridge,; Charles H. Horndon, Dublin, Texas...
...Columbia, had given the name to the dance and practiced it secretly for their prom. By last week the Big Apple was gaining currency which, but for the fortunate fact that it is too strenuous for mature ballroom dancers, threatened to make it a national menace like the Charleston...
...Virginia reel. Fundamental step is a hop similar to the Lindy Hop. In the words of Variety, "it requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah." Through it all, the "caller" shouts...