Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earthquakes, eruptions, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, famines & conflagrations are all classed as "Acts of God" and neatly tabulated, year after year, by the International Union for the Relief of Disasters, a subsidiary of the League of Nations. Last week the tabulators of the I. U. R. D. announced that during the past three years the U. S. (with 76) has been the object of more "Acts of God" than any other nation. Italy was second with 64. Other nations...
Other Catastrophies. In the long, narrow area of.disaster a cyclone swept the islands of Syra & Mitylene, in the Aegean Sea, unroofing hundreds of houses. A quake racked Adrianople, in Thrace. Finally a tidal wave rose from the Black Sea to inundate the Bulgarian port of Varna, which simultaneously quivered...
Flood Control. Simplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. We shall always have flood and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and wind, lightning and tidal wave, which are all too constant in their afflictions. The Government does not undertake to reimburse its citizens for loss and damage incurred under such circumstances. It is chargeable, however, with the rebuilding of public works and the humanitarian duty of relieving its citizens in distress...
Wave. But on the west coast, almost certainly due to the Pacific submarine earthquake (see JAPAN), a tidal wave, said to have been more than 1,000 miles long and of mountainous proportions in height, spread death and destruction...
Eighteenth Day. Typhoon and tidal wave struck Kiushiu Island, Japan (see p. 22) on which is Omura, where the Pride of Detroit sulked in her hangar. So boisterous were the skies that the Pride dared...