Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week were of a different sort from those that jarred the Midwest. Beneath California the terrestrial stresses and strains that built the geologically youthful Rocky Mountains are still active, and there are huge subterranean faults (rock fractures along which a shearing motion occurs). Subjected, to a continuing strain, the earth gradually bends until the limit of elasticity is reached, then slips suddenly along the fault plane. The quake of 1906 was caused by a horizontal slip of 21 ft. along the San Andreas fault...
...other hand, made most of their adjustments a long time ago and faults are puny and unimportant. Only 20,000 or 25,000 years ago, however, a sheet of ice a mile thick lay over the Great Lakes region. The tremendous weight of this pressed down the earth, which is now springing back in desultory jerks. Last week's quakes were caused by upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive violence. Father Joseph Lynch...
...giving the best performance of the year in The Great Ziegfeld, Luise Rainer (rhymes with "shiner") gave highly distinguished ones in her first picture, Escapade, in which, newly arrived from Vienna, she became a star overnight when Myrna Loy refused to play the lead, and in The Good Earth, released too late for consideration last week. In one of the busiest 1936s in or out of the cinema industry, Immigrant Rainer not only became the No. 1 U. S. Cinemactress but also found time to fall in love with Playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty), generally rated the ablest young...
...Washington last week U. S. Weather Bureau officials cautiously told newshawks that they were having good luck with "air-mass analysis," a new weather forecasting technique which consists of a vertical examination of atmospheric conditions rather than a horizontal survey at Earth's surface. On five days during the previous week the Washington office received upper air data from Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, where small sounding balloons were sent up with radio-meteorographs. These little gadgets contain a thermometer, hygrometer (humidity recorder), barometer, shortwave radio transmitter and batteries, encased in a streamlined aluminum shell, the whole weighing...
...mass theory holds that great masses of cold air and others of warm air rolling over the earth make weather by their interaction, causing rain, fog, snow. When a "cold front" slides over a "warm front" the air at the boundary is twisted and violent disturbances are likely to occur. The Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort...