Word: seismograph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important jogs and wiggles on the international seismograph last week all indicated new stirrings in Asia...
...sound which jiggled the seismograph most was the voice of Vishinsky. Since a Communist's word can neither be trusted nor disregarded, the West took note of his warnings. Western intelligence recognizes that a full-scale Chinese attack on Indo-China would undo all the success General de Lattre de Tassigny has had there, but it still has no solid evidence that a Chinese invasion is imminent...
...whole world stopped breathing for a moment over his fall," said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It was journalistic hyperbole, but it caught, more vividly than any other seismograph, the tremor of emotion that ran around the globe as Douglas MacArthur was ordered down from his lofty post...
...music business, a rough & ready seismograph of all public concerns, was beginning to zigzag to the war in Korea. Biggest of a crop of new patriotic songs sprouting along Tin Pan Alley was a brash tune in march tempo called The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record...
Besides its many telescopes, the station also has one of the few seismographs in this area. Its building is of red brick like all the others, but the foundation lies 13 feet in the solid bed rock ledge below the station. To avoid the slightest crack or deformation, workmen dug the foundation by hand, and poured all the concrete at one time. In the above-ground rooms, students and professors watch several machines which have needles drawing red lines on continuous rolls of graphed paper. These machines report each variation, no matter how slight, in the seismograph below ground. Visitors...