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...history of the Harvard seismograph station occurred last, Wednesday, it was announced yesterday by L. D. Leet, seismologist in charge. It started early in the morning and continued through the night. These rythmatic earth-vibrations have puzzled seismologists for many years. In the last storm the earth's crust in this vicinity was agitated by ripples causing vibrations as great as one thousandth of an inch, or five times as great as those recorded in a similar storm last December...
This discrepancy in time is explained by the fact that New Zealand is 9,000 miles to the east, of Cambridge. The distance was traversed by tremors passing 1,800 miles beneath the earth's outer crust, in 19 1-4 minutes, which registered a displacement of one thousandth of an inch on the seismograph machine. Dr. Leet regards it as a curious coincidence that on Monday, June 16, 1930, the record of a disturbance coming from the same locality was registered at a time only 69 seconds earlier than the recent earthquake...
...himself an "out," added that "even better than the dole" would have been a system of employing the unemployed on public works. "I be-lieve," he proclaimed, "that there is no justice in allowing even one man to starve through no fault of his own while there is a crust to spare in the nation's cupboard...
...with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard...
...organization. We enjoyed having him come. He was simple, quiet, sincere and earnest, and we all liked him. I remember once asking him to have evening dinner with us and serving him a huckleberry pie which I had made myself and which could not be cut. the crust was so tough. You see, I was a bride that year, and pie was a new venture to me. I was not embarrassed about it. Mr. Ford seemed to enjoy...