Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outboard explosion spaces" and "double bottom spaces"; her inner hull was not ruptured and the few leaks that were started could easily have been plugged up, or the water pumped out. At no time did she list more than five degrees. No material damage was done by the shock to such machinery as she contained. Candles left burning on the deck were not extinguished or knocked over. Unless persons on deck should be washed overboard by water thrown up by the explosions, no loss of life could possibly be caused by bombing of this sort. After these explosions, a three...
...entire eastern part of the country about 9.30 Saturday night threw the stylus of the University seismograph in Peabody Hall off the east-west component of motion, according to Professor R. A. Daly G. '95, of the Department of Geology, but did not prevent taking a record of the shock...
Asked what has been learned concerning the nature of the shock last night, Professor Daly replied that nothing definite has yet been determined. "The quake was extraordinary," he declared, "both for its strength and the wide area of disturbance. The center seems to have been about 100 miles distant from Boston either to the cast or west." Professor J. B. Woodworth, the University seismologist, is absent on sabbatical leave in Florida and hence cannot read the record of the seismograph. The cylinder has therefore been shellacked, and will be sent to Washington for study...
...many parts of Cambridge and Boston the shock was not felt at all. Professor Daly said that this was due to "blind spots" which are not yet fully understood. The reason that audiences in Boston theatres were totally unaware of the shock, he said, is that the buildings have very firm foundations...
...sense of loss on the part of the University that he has served. No matter for how many years he has been in office, nor how exacting the work which he has carried on his shoulders, the announcement of his impending retirement invariably has an element of surprise and shock. It seems impossible that one who has been so close to the life of the institution can ever...