Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another week of portents. Its atmosphere troubled by sunspots, its crust similarly affected and adjusting itself to isostasy (equilibrium), Earth underwent varied disturbances. At Ridgefield, N. J., the black cone of a cyclone descended upon a lumber factory, swept a big church flat as a card house, ripped through houses, garages. It flooded streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later...
...Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe's temblor areas, scientists had no explanation for the simultaneous shuddering of such widely separated portions of the terrestrial crust, save that earthquakes are all due, ultimately, to redistribution of surface soils by rainfall, causing readjustments to take place in the brittle rock base of Earth's 60-mile crust.* There was much rain everywhere last winter and spring. In Germany, Jugoslavia and Mexico, heavy summer rains last week swelled rivers...
...Geologists point out that frequent earthquakes are a blessing in disguise and the more of them that come, the better. If the earth's crust did not frequently adjust itself, tremendous strains would build up, giving way with much more catastrophic results...
...pity that this book, with a subject so rich, and fragrant, po- tentially as full of life and color as the Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets...
...than these two: and few ever wrote more distinctly to please the common man. It is greatly to be regretted that a play like "The School for Scandal" which was written originally for the entertainment of the masses should now have become so exclusively the property of the upper crust of the theatregoing public...