Word: faults
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station, gave complete records of the San Francisco, Valparaiso, and the great Indian earthquakes. The Harvard station will pay particular attention to New England earthquakes and to the geological examination of the recent fault-lines along which it is suspected many historically recorded small shocks have arisen...
...obtaining judicial or financial employments in departments, the capital of which was valued at about 1600 millions of dollars, and all of which was lost in the Revolution. The dominating character of all large fortunes in France was the dependence on State institutions, which was politically and economically a fault. Idle money was increased, while money actively engaged in the building up of wealth was diminished. Today these conditions are reversed, the governmental employees receiving only fair salaries. Investments have become international and production has been stimulated, giving rise to large fortunes and greater wealth. M. d'Avenel thinks...
...Graduates' night performance last evening went off well, despite many of the drawbacks often attendant on a first performance. The play is full of funny situations, but in many places last night the action was allowed to drag; a fault which was enhanced by the fact that two or three of characters did not know their lines...
...from some distance will meet today at the Hotel Winthrop in Meriden, and in the evening a meeting will be held to describe the work of the excursion. The subjects to be studied are chiefly sandstones and interbedded lavas of the Triassic formation, with special regard to an important fault line, on which the displacement amounts to 2000 feet...
...with possibly the best form, and the crews of Holworthy and Russell also showed good speed and finish. All the eights, however, were extremely ragged, and although they showed a good improvement over yesterday, the boats rocked considerably and the men rowed with little form and finish. The chief fault was a failure of the men in all the boats to sit up straight enough and many were inclined to settle at the finish of the stroke. Most of the crews were coached in short stretches, as the men are not yet seasoned sufficiently for continuous rowing...