Word: mediterraneanize
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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...
Mystery. When Mr. Mills did arrive in Paris, he carefully explained he was going on a holiday yachting trip in the Mediterranean. Nevertheless his presence in France generated an atmosphere of intense expectancy. Was his story of the usual diplomatic kind that conceals a secret mission of high international import? He insisted he would see no French officials ?and then he waited over 24 hours on the chance of conferring with Premier André Tardieu. A mysterious appointment was made for 5 p.m. The French Premier waited two hours for Mr. Mills to arrive, only to learn that...
Inventor Otis Barton-Harvard graduate (1922), onetime Paris art student, African big game hunter-last year de-signed and built a diving ball which proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added...
...merely experiencing a temporary lapse. The great Roman of modern times, when he is not busy dodging the bullets of eight year old would-be assassins, is occupied not with idealistic notion about a place in the sun but with the modest and practical scheme of making the Mediterranean an Italian lake. The ways and means is this new war--Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania against Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, and France...
HOTEL UNIVERSE?An informal psychoanalytic clinic overlooking the Mediterranean (TIME, April...