Word: leapfrog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the explanation was out. One of the Yalta scientists found a man chopping wood in the hall of the station. Other "quakes" had been caused by people moving furniture, children playing leapfrog, adults fighting. Unknown to Yalta's unobservant seismologists these people had been moved into the seismology station by the Yalta housing committee. The committee, cabled the New York Times's Harold Denny, thought seismology a worthless science anyway since the toppling of buildings was sufficient indication that an earthquake was happening...
...scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff had noted three facts of scientific interest: their radios worked most peculiarly, playing magnetic leapfrog over numerous electrical blind spots; the water was 2½ miles deep below them; their floe was drifting away from the Pole five miles each day, had already moved some 60 miles. Exciting event: someone spotted a guillemot, black-&-white seabird heretofore unknown so far north. Finally, with the base...