Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bergen piled up 108 looseleaf notebooks in his children's playroom. As the project grew, he began to have nightmares about a fire destroying his files. "If the house caught fire while I was out," he chuckles, "my wife was instructed to forget the kids and start throwing the books out the window." Despite all his research, Evans willingly admits that the final defense of his pragmatic approach to problems raised by the English language is his own judgment. Says he: "I have a pretty strong ear and I have confidence in it. During the writing of the book...
...Warning. Natural earthquakes, said Dr. Bullen, are not ideal as tools for earth study. Their waves often start from a large region, which makes them leave fuzzy records, like the shadows cast by a bonfire. Even worse, they give no warning, so seismologists have no time to start up the expensive, sensitive instruments they use when they want to record events of special interest...
...style A-bombs can send waves strong enough to pass right through the earth. They come from a small area whose position is accurately known, and since the time of the explosion is under human control, warning can be given when the man-made waves are about to start through the earth...
...were placed below the earth's surface or under the sea, much more of their energy would turn into useful earth waves. The exact time would be told in advance, so scientists all over the earth could have their instruments tuned to concert pitch. A radio signal might start abreast of each burst of waves. When the earth's gentle, controlled trembling finally quieted down, the scientists would have data for a new understanding of its mysterious interior...
...were set up in the trenches. Then the trenches were roofed with timber trusses and covered deep with snow. The 60 scientists and military men who spend the winter at Fist Clench will have a!1 reasonable comforts, and they will hardly feel it when the 100-m.p.h. gales start blowing overhead...