Word: seismograph
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...buildings for its colony of scientists. Most of the touring businessmen had heard of modern oil prospecting by "artificial"' earthquakes and other geophysical methods. At Harmarville they saw how it was done. A charge of dynamite in the ground was detonated. The earth tremors were recorded on a seismograph mounted on a truck some distance away. From the shock record the speed of the tremors was deduced, and from that the geological character of the ground. Also on view were gravity instruments so sensitive that they detect the moon's tidal pull on the earth. With such equipment...
Among the most interesting of the other Harvard stations is the Seismograph Station near the town of Harvard Earthquakes from all parts of the globe are recorded here on the delicate machinery of the station. Records of the vibrations are sent to all seismograph stations, and, in collaboration with these stations, valuable scientific data is obtained...
...minor shocks that were recorded on the Harvard seismograph at Harvard, Mass. over the weekend comprise but the vanguard of many more that are to come during the next two years in this vicinity, according to Harvard geologists. And these quakes in the future will be nothing to trifle with because it is claimed that they will be severe enough to topple chimneys and send people scurrying to cover...
...first tremors of the quake were now felt. A hundred or more leftist students, eager for Change, girded their loins and marched through the CENTRE RIGHT. Simultaneously the stalwart reactionaries of the RIGHT goose stepped over to the LEFT side. The resulting scrimmage around CENTRE gave the delicate seismograph upstairs a bad case of jitters, and fear was felt for Costa Rica or somewhere...
...presence in the background of contemporary literature-and we picture her as the great pyramidal Buddha of Jo Davidson's statue of her, eternally and placidly ruminating the gradual developments of the processes of being, regis- tering the vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven't the training to read." Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled-A Political Satire, Lucy Church Amiably, Tender Buttons and her monumental The Making of Americans may have to wait for a doubtful posterity to be properly appreciated; but her first...