Word: seismograph
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...became rigid, perhaps entrapping gases deep below the surface. Then, during two or three billion years, meteors rained on its surface, building up a thick layer of iron and other heavy materials. The truth of this ingenious theory will not be susceptible to a final check until a seismograph set by man on the moon's surface studies its interior by means of moon-quake waves...
Peyton Place glows in the night not once but twice a week. The camera impatiently scurries from house to house in the small New England town, functioning as a kind of sexual seismograph, recording the slightest tremor. Most of them are very slight, indeed. For example, last week's biggest one involved a man who had made his secretary his mistress but disapproved of his son's going out with the secretary's daughter. Yet, since all the other new comic and dramatic series are developed through broad caricature, the odd thing about this marathonical bore...
...Boston College seismograph station in Weston described the tremor as "a slight earthquake lasting from five to ten seconds." The center of the disturbance was in Boston Harbor, and it was felt as far as about fifteen miles inland in Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
Netsch tore up eight false starts before the final design came to him from one of those inspired doodles from which architects so often get ideas. He had drawn a horizontal line, then a series of near-vertical connected lines that looked a bit like the tracing of a seismograph gone wild. Then the idea of using tetrahedrons came into being-100 four-sided structures of steel tubing serving as the building blocks of a whole series of spires that would reach up to heaven and still flow logically from the design. "By literally placing the tetrahedrons...
...British disarmament delegation's residence near Geneva, Foreign Secretary Lord Home tried a new way of explaining the need for inspection and verification to Russia's Andrei Gromyko. "After all," said Lord Home, "one never knows what has happened when you read the seismograph signals. It might be an earthquake, or it could be a bomb, or it could be Mr. Molotov falling downstairs." Gromyko stared gravely at Home for a long moment, then replied: "Mr. Molotov is not fissionable material...