Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Think everything on earth's askew...
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies...
...earth still trembled. By early morning the major temblors had been estimated at 23. In the devastated area, which extended as far as 60 mi. inland, property had been destroyed in 14 towns and cities. More than 4,000 had been injured. The dead were reckoned...
...that time he commented: "Men's memories are sadly short, when they can find cheaper ways of doing things. Yet we can be, and some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American cities." The entire Pacific is rimmed with earthquake potentialities, he then reminded the world. Earth is faulty and under cracking stress all along the west coast of North and South America (with an easterly loop which includes the West Indies). The terrestrial weakness stretches across Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka, whence it passes southward through the Japanese, Philippine and South Pacific archipelagoes...
Events of recent weeks testify to the earth faults-earthquakes in Japan and Cuba a fortnight ago, in Chile the prior week, in Alaska concurrently. Argentina and Germany, apparently thrown off bal ance, also quaked. Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Krakatoa in the East Indies, seethe...