Word: seismographs
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...been uncivilized during these years. On the contrary, we owe many of the world's greatest discoveries to the Chinese. The Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST) has organized an exhibit which bolsters China's civilization advancing discoveries, including magnetism, gunpowder, papermaking, printing, the compass, and the seismograph. China: 7,000 Years of Discovery is a unique exhibition displaying science, technology and artistry of China's past seven milleniums...
...Rich a "seismograph of American protest," became a strong voice in the 1960 against the Vietman war, said Visiting Profession of English and American Language ad Literature Helen H. Vendler, who introduced the poet...
Gromyko was like a seismograph inserted into the very heart of America's Government, absorbing all the tremors but sending absolutely nothing back. Gromyko talked, but what Reagan heard was right out of the briefing book, a recitation of prejudices, perceived insults and the history of the world acl cording to the U.S.S.R...
Time delights in the story behind the story. Maddened by a putdown from Joan Kennedy but under orders not to respond, "Rosalynn Cater's anger vibrated through the White House corridors" only to show up on the Time Inc. seismograph. And the talent for summation almost overwhelms. When voters told pollsters that they wouldn't support Jimmy Carter in November, "their mood was captured by Roy Brown, a food company executive in Fort Lee, N.J., who declared: 'We need a change. anything would be better than four more years of Jimmy Carter...
...native of Brooklyn and a graduate of New York's City College, the precise, soft-spoken Press did his doctoral studies at Columbia University and worked with Geophysicist Maurice Ewing to develop a highly sensitive seismograph that can detect even the slightest earth tremors. The device, known as the Press-Ewing seismograph, is now one of the standard tools of earth scientists around the world. Press was also one of the organizers of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), which began, in 1957, as a multidisciplined, worldwide scientific investigation of the earth and the space around it. IGY eventually grew...