Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This terrain is the newest of all the country's national scenic areas. Although set aside some years ago by the National Government, this area was not accessible until three years ago when the Union Pacific built a spur from Land, Utah, to Cedar City. This new train service was opened by President Harding on his ill-fated western trip from which he never returned...
Three years ago he stated that Santa Barbara would be shaken. Last summer that prophecy was fulfilled (TIME, July 6). The earthquake was purely local, and failed to relieve the general strain which pulls at the terrain from Elsinore, to San Gabriel, between which, at an angle, lies Los Angeles. Like Dean Mather of Harvard, who predicts a quake for Massachusetts (TIME, Nov. 9), Professor Willis advises people to prepare for the disaster as they would for a famine...
...that worse upheavals are coming, upheavals as violent as those that visited New England in 1775 and about the same calibre as the Santa Barbara shocks last summer. He predicted that the property damage to New England would be great because of the number of buildings on insecure terrain and the vertical architecture, but he looked for most damage from panic. He argued the wisdom of instructing the public in "the amenities of conduct during earthquakes." In the light of prior experience, he roughed out a preparedness program...
...total of 5,300 miles over perilous ice-lands: "I think that again the great National Geographic Society has fathered an expedition that has contributed scientific knowledge to the world." He particularized: experience with radio and solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness...
Engineer Cooper, who has for 14 years revolved his idea of riding the Old Man of the Sea and for four years studied the Fundy terrain, is prepared to finance his project without state or federal aid and to devote the rest of his life to its completion. It would cost over 75 millions, he figures. It would take 5,000 workmen five years. The sea walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains...