Word: pomeroys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed. Last week, as negotiators prepared to resume the suspended talks at Geneva, word leaked of a report submitted to President Eisenhower which concludes that U.S. seismologists have achieved considerable success. Though the report itself is still secret, one major improvement has been sacrificed by its inventors-Paul W. Pomeroy and George H. Sutton of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory...
...based on a type of seismograph in which a heavy weight is suspended so that it holds still while the earth waves move past it. The slight motion between the weight and electrical elements close to it creates a fluctuating electrical current. Before the current reaches the recording apparatus Pomeroy and Sutton pass it through a special galvanometer-a coil that makes a small weight move against the resistance of a delicate spring. The waves in which they are interested are long and of low frequency (40 to 50 sec.). They found that by choosing a galvanometer with the proper...
...Pomeroy and Sutton are guarded about the effect their filters will have on international networks for detecting underground nuclear tests. They calculate that six stations equipped with the new instruments could detect most underground disturbances anywhere on earth that have the energy of a "nominal" (20-kiloton) nuclear bomb. Between 20 and 50 stations (v. the presently postulated 180) would be required not only to detect but also locate such disturbances. They are not prepared to estimate just how many more would be required to detect explosions of bombs as small as 5 kilotons or how accurately they could distinguish...
...Dixieland revival on college campuses--a merger of old New Orleans traditions with modern technique and Harmony--and Harvard was no exception. Harvard dixie activity hit its stride in the early Fifties, when Crimson Stompers made many sounds and WHRB assumed the roule of a jazz-oriented station. Herb Pomeroy, now a Boston bandleader, helped link Harvard and Boston jazz...
...there will be no progress until interest increases, and this can come only through hearing men play. "They have to hire what they have or nothing will improve. There used to be a piano at WHRB, and on Fridays really good men would get together and play--fellows like Pomeroy and Twardzik. They'll play for money, or enthusiasm. But they won't play for nothing...