Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Real earthquakes jarred northern Europe last week, causing widespread panic, several deaths, scores of injuries. The epicentre was located by seismologists under the North Sea, 250 miles northeast of London. The shocks were felt in Belgium. England, France, Germany, The Netherlands. In Belgium, which was hardest hit, damage was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Seismological instruments in Brussels were broken by the violence of the temblor. In Ghent, one wall of the Palais de Justice was badly cracked, and a pedestrian was killed by a streetcar running wild. At Ostend, a British police band gallantly marched on, playing...
Next day milder "followup" shocks were felt as far south as Italy...
...teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength of their ground plan, contemplated many changes before the art centre is erected, but felt sure that architects who could successfully solve a major problem would have little trouble with minor ones...
...rebut this suggestion, by testing the operation of pure chance on no less than 500.000 cards. Last week he announced that he had obtained an average of 4.9743 hits per 25 cards. Since this was below but closely approximate to the expected five hits per 25, Dr. Greenwood felt he had proved Dr. Rhine's point-that telepathic and clairvoyant humans can make much better scores than are obtainable by random card-matching...
...plot, silly the Victorian primness that made the plot possible. Briefly, two young ladies get each other's dance bouquets by mistake, thereupon pine and languish in silence (except for eight or ten solos and duets) along with the tongue-tied swains who sent them. Although first-nighters felt now & then that they were being sprayed with charm as though from an atomizer, much of the time The Two Bouquets saved itself by being smartly paced, lightly keyed, freshly mounted...