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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition of archaeological treasures, especially at the Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe's temblor areas, scientists had no explanation for the simultaneous shuddering of such widely separated portions of the terrestrial crust, save that earthquakes are all due, ultimately, to redistribution of surface soils by rainfall, causing readjustments to take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Summer Portents | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Georgetown University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

King (Stan), Work (Stan), Norton (Georgetown), Coggeshall (U. S. C.), Hampton (Cal), Wright (Columbia), Larsen (Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coast Stars Scintillate as 50th Intercollegiate Meet Opens | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

Mathias (Penn State), Dowding (Georgetown), Reynolds (U. S. C.), McRae (Stan), Dikeman (Princeton), Bates (Penn State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coast Stars Scintillate as 50th Intercollegiate Meet Opens | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

Houser (U. S. C.), Gerkin (Cal), Baker (Swarthmore), Hoffman (Stan), Phillips (Cal), Norton (Georgetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coast Stars Scintillate as 50th Intercollegiate Meet Opens | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

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