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Besides being a huge theatre of war, the Western Pacific area is one of the most seismic in the world, according to Professor Leet, and "it would be a miracle if there was no sizeable quake somewhere within the vast area during the six months." The damage would not be great, however, for there are no really large centers that might be affected. In any case the damage could be repaired before it seriously disturbed the war effort...
...open on nice spring and fall days, but don't let nature call until your senior year or you may find the competition too stiff. Don't let anyone kid you into wasting your time on Math 2, if you don't fancy the Calculus, before going in for seismic surveying in 9b. The course is good stuff for the lubrication addicts, but in the whole year you only get one problem that requires Math...
...Gandolfo near Rome. Before him was the text of a 13,000-word document which he had written and re-written three times in longhand. Pope Pius XII made some final corrections, sent the document off to the Vatican printers. It was his first encyclical, long delayed by the seismic events of World War II. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics waited to hear it as the keynote of the Holy Father's reign. Two days later the encyclical, entitled, from its first two words, Summi Pontificatus ("Of the Supreme Pontificate"), was released to the world...
...Borneo and the Philippines, through Japan, Alaska, the U. S. Pacific Coast and down through central and western South America to the Cape, Chile shares honors with Japan as the shakiest region on earth. Of 9,000 big & little quakes & tremors recorded every year, fully 21% occur in Chile. Seismic observers estimate that during the past three centuries Chile has had on the average a serious quake every three years. Last week she was hit again...
...Leet, assistant professor of Geology, returned yesterday from South Carolina where he conducted experiments penetrating the earth to record depths in order to determine geologic structure by the seismic method...