Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fault. Leland Stanford University maintains Professor Lydik Siegumfeldt Jacobsen and a vibration table by means of which he simulates the shocks and temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers...
Dramatically, the playwright had two strikes against him when he set out to follow the New England Pingrees, in three acts and on one set, from 1650 to 1933. Act I finds one Daniel Pingree about to be turned out of his rock-ribbed home because he has taken up with a wild young thing who lives in the woods. Act II presents another Daniel. He flees the homestead when the factories press too close, goes to California and makes good...
...expeditions often consisted of racing desert animals. The Gobi Desert has a rock floor which in many places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...
Washington sightseers still flock to the grave in Rock Creek Cemetery where Henry Adams and his wife lie buried, to ask each other tripperish questions about the brooding bronze figure, famed work of Adams' friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In accordance with Henry's educated will, "no inscription, date, letters or other attempt at memorial" give curious onlookers any clear hint of what his education amounted...
...following members of the Class of 1932 received the S.B. degree (Out of Course): G. N. Barrie, Jr., of Brookline, Mass; J. E. Davidson, Brookline, Mass.; J. V. N. Dorr, 2nd, New York, N. Y.; R. B. Johnston, Rock Falls, Ill.; J. J. Mackin, Jackson Heights, N. Y.; A. B. Poole, Abington, Mass.; E. H. Sterne, Jr., Cincinnati, O.; Francis Woodbridge, Jr., Portland...