Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes after 9 p. m. E. S. T. last Friday, Jesuit Fathers in their universities at Georgetown and Fordham watched seismographic needles squiggle excitedly across white paper drums. In snowy Cambridge, Harvard seismologists estimated the disturbance to be 2,600 mi. away. "You might be interested in knowing," a woman telephoned the New York Times, "that I have just tried to communicate with Los Angeles by telephone. The operator said: 'Sorry, I can't connect you. We're having an earthquake...
...going to be a long earthquake. At 6:06 p. m. (Pacific Time) a second shudder ran under California's coastal apron, from the winter & summer colony at Santa Barbara to the port of San Diego, 200 mi. south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
...capture of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War which cost 97,000 Russian lives, 45,000 Japanese. Actually last week Jehol fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed...
...gates!" he ordered. "Close the Kupei Pass!" Frantically Chinese troops of the Peiping garrison rushed to obey orders and thus shut Jehol's luckless Chinese defenders out of China. Commandeering motor cars, trucks, carts and 10,000 Peiping rickshaws & coolies, the Young Marshal's troops sped 50 mi. to the Wall. No fool, War Lord Tang did not himself try to slip in from Jehol, but 242 motor trucks loaded with his "treasures" reached the Wall. Promptly the treasures vanished...
Meanwhile the backwash of the tidal wave engulfed 1,533 small ships, damaged 85, sent alarming shivers along the steel spine of the liner Heian Mara, 400 mi. out at sea. Rushing on, the tidal backwash struck the Island of Hawaii (3,500 mi. from Japan) as a loft. wave which made things exciting on the beach. In Tokyo, while efficient Japanese clerks totaled up the disaster statistics. Director General Sinichi Kumitomi of the Central Seismological Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo...