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...Friday. March 10, 5:55 p. m. In the residential section of Long Beach, Calif, many citizens are clustered about the radio. 'The TIME' broadcast is about to end. A deafening, ominous thunder drowns the voice of the announcer! The earth rocks, heaves and rolls with violent force! (voices scream, 'EARTHQUAKE...
Sound travels through air 1088 feet per second. At about ten minutes past six one evening last week the people of Basel, Switzerland heard a dull and distant rumble. It might have been thunder, but the sky was clear. A minute and a half later the same sound reached Cologne, Germany, 250 miles to the north. Between 6:00 and 6:15 that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction...
...Adolf Hitler was Germany's rising star. In 1932 he and his Nazis slipped back to the tune of 2,000,000 lost votes. His thunder was largely stolen...
...Vagabond, returning to his proper business after a too long sojourn in fields remote, has been meditating on certain great men of the past. He has run his eye over the scroll of worthies, all great men in their time, sons of thunder, shakers of the earth,--and now forgotten. Like all of the Vagabond's musings, this one had an external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality...
MORLEY (Christopher) Thunder on the Left. With Preface by Hugh Walpole...