Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy;" the " sphygmobiometer," which demonstrates the " wave-metric index " of liquids and minerals and is used as a divining-rod for locating subterranean oil; the " electro-bioscope;" the " reflexo-phone," a loud speaker arrangement which makes sounds indicative of certain diseases. Dr. Abrams predicts that these machines will be perfected to the point where people can stand on street corners, drop a coin in the slot and get a complete diagnosis...
Inhabitants of Atlantic City and Ventor, New Jersey, apparently under-went a tremulous Tuesday. Window panes and dishes, were set so a-rattle that a real earthquake was confidently expected. Although the director of the Weather Bureau tried to lay the blame upon some "subterranean disturbance," easier explanations are ready to hand. It might have been premonitory deviltry of the witches who held high revel last night. But an even more obvious explanation is the report on the "highest authority" that Senator Hiram Johnson is to be a candidate for the Republican Nomination in 1924. Certainly if California...
When interviewed in his subterranean laboratory yesterday. Mr. Mulliken said that he had been started upon his research by an article published in 1915 by Dr. W. Jevons, a noted English scientist. In this article Jevons had described his observations of the band spectra of boron nitride; he had measured the heads of two systems of spectrum bands of boron nitride and located two subsidiary systems of bands and also extra bands apparently filling no system...
Last week the French stated that they would confiscate all the Ruhr Valley industries, punish sabotage with death and resistance with imprisonment. This order, not yet promulgated, in no way affects the subterranean efforts for a "settlement" which have been going on for some weeks at Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, even Washington. The French have no intention of staying their hand in the Ruhr until definite preliminaries to a settlement of the Ruhr and reparations problem have been agreed upon...
...Excavation for a new hotel in Washington, D. C., unearthed a subterranean cypress swamp containing fossil diatoms, minute plants which lived in the Pleistocene age. " Oldest inhabitants" are arguing with the scientists that the swamp existed in their boyhood, but the evidence favors its antiquity...