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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earthquake Zones. Why do earthquakes so often recur in the same places? Writes the erudite Montessus, whose world seismological map is speckled with nearly 160.000 quakes: "The earth's crust trembles almost only along two narrow bands which lie along great circles of the earth, the Mediterranean, or Alpino-Caucasian- Himalayan Circle; and the Circum-Pacific or Ando-Japanese-Malayan Circle." Fifty-three percent of all recorded earthquakes have occurred on the first of these, the Eurasian earthquake belt (see map, p. 23). Neatly tucked in the western end of this belt is much-troubled Naples...
...ogopogo appear in Long Island Sound or the Hudson River. But New Yorkers are used to getting their strange animal stories under the dateline "Winsted, Conn." This awful thought occurred: Are the fabulous animals of Connecticut spreading over the whole continent? Story-Teller Stone. Winsted, Conn, got on the map as Strange Animal Capital of the World some 25 years ago when a reporter named Louis Timothy Stone wired to the New York World: CHICKEN HAS TWO HEADS HOW MUCH. Next day the World editors received 100 words and a photograph of Winsted's two-headed chicken. Story-Teller...
...example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author Géraldy is more a maker of neat maps. The cartography of these disputed regions is still vague; such map-making fills a need. Without telling you anything new, he often makes you aware of what you already know, gives details as positively and clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this...
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...outside of Pike County, Miss., where it has some 2,500 subscribers, ever hear of the McComb Enterprise. Nor would many more recognize the name of John Oliver Emmerich, its editor. Last week the obscure weekly and Editor Emmerich were marked in bold letters on the journalistic map of the U. S., when the National Editorial Association, convened in Milwaukee, awarded the Enterprise its 1930 trophy for the rural newspaper rendering the outstanding community service of the year...