Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American missionaries have testified in spite of the decision of the State Department that the American fatalities are not the fault of the Cantonese authorities, but that on the contrary the Cantonese have made every effort to prevent them. After all, when machine guns are in readiness at a Chicago election, it is not surprising that men caught in the midst of a Chinese civil war should run unpreventable danger. And yet it looks now as though thousands of our troops will risk their lives to revenge the deaths of hot over a dozen of their countrymen...
...situation at Nanking is admittedly serious. Americans who would have been herded out of the city three weeks ago but for the incompetence of the American authorities there have been caught in the street fighting between Nationalist advance guards and retiring Northerners. That it is the fault of U. S. authorities that they are so caught does not alter the apprehension felt for their safety. But they have not been massacred, General Chiang Kai Shek has promised to guarantee their safety, and according to late advices last night many of them had already reached places of refuge under the protection...
...merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means prompt response to the opportunity for profit. The fault, we suspect, is largely one of absentee ownership...
...Concord earthquake was of a sort very apt to occur in New England when the ground melts in early spring, said Professor Mather, and is caused by small faults developing along frost cracks. The recent Japanese quake, however, was brought about by a slipping of land masses along a fundamental fault which lies near the shore. The serious Japanese earthquake of 1923 was also caused by this same fault...
When asked about the possibility of a severe earthquake around Boston, Professor Mather replied that there is a fault, the Funday Fault, which runs along the ocean floor about 75 miles out. A slipping along this fault may be expected every century at least, said Professor Mather, "This might reach an intensity of 8, sufficient to injure buildings, particularly those in filled land such as the Back Bay. Any such quake, however, would probably not be as serious as the one in San Francisco, since there the fault runs near the city...