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Osaka, Japan, Saturday, Sept, 22--The wall of wind which swept in from the sea, causing a tidal wave and toppling tall buildings in southwestern Japan like matchwood, left more than 4,100 persons dead and injured, officials estimated...
...power of men, which in our time have created the noble bridges of the Thames, the Forth, the Hudson and Sydney Harbor, can drive also tunnels such as this, in which many streams of wheeled traffic may run in light and safety below the depths and turbulence of tidal water bearing ships of the world...
...company could recover from their surprise. Cornered in their cabins, where they had run for their guns, the four officers were bundled over the side and into the tiny glory hole of one of the junks. Three days after their capture, when the junk was anchored in a muddy tidal creek, they made their first attempt at escape. After floundering all night in oozy mud they were glad to get back to their prison. Soon one of them was sent off with a note demanding ransom. The other three settled down to wait for rescue. When searching planes came over...
...Modern scientists in the Arctic are better trained, and know exactly what they want. Besides having unlimited economic resources, the land north of the Arctic circle presents a tremendous area that has never been touched. Tidal observations by the late Dr. R. A. Harris of Washington have shown a vast land area between Alaska and the pole, none of which has ever been explored or exploited...
More dubious are the theories that sunspots affect the habits and numbers of animals, cause droughts, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes. The withering drought of 1929 was close to a sunspot peak, but there were other drought causes-light snows, early thaws-the preceding winter. California's Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, S. J., "Padre of the Rains," had astonishing success in predicting weather by sunspots, but Father Jerome is dead now and his secret seems to have died with...