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Professor Mather will probably cover the various theories of the formation of the earth, whether from nebular matter in space; or perhaps by a breaking off from the sun owing to a tidal wave created by a passing comet, the Jeans theory. He will present the various conjectures and discoveries about the formation of the earth's shell of rock...
...program for farm, mortgages, $2,000,000,000 for home mortgages. Half a billion dollars was voted for direct unemployment relief. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created to put 275,000 idle young men to work in the woods. All these measures were desperate defenses, bulwarks against the immediate tidal wave of economic demoralization...
...Convention was held at Amherst last year, with D. L. Moore '33 as the Harvard delegate. Moore read two poems by Anna Hempstead. Marget Clark, last year's delegate from Radcliffe, read three selections by R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English: "In the Tidal Marsh," "Ironwood," and "The Platitude...
...manufacture the new money the Bureau of Engraving & Printing went into 24-hour operation, its blue lights gleaming through the night across the Tidal Basin. Its 4,500 employes turned out crisp new bales of cash. Trucks, airplanes and trains rushed it cross-countrv to the twelve Federal Reserve banks from which it was distributed like a financial blood transfusion to member banks...
Meanwhile the backwash of the tidal wave engulfed 1,533 small ships, damaged 85, sent alarming shivers along the steel spine of the liner Heian Mara, 400 mi. out at sea. Rushing on, the tidal backwash struck the Island of Hawaii (3,500 mi. from Japan) as a loft. wave which made things exciting on the beach. In Tokyo, while efficient Japanese clerks totaled up the disaster statistics. Director General Sinichi Kumitomi of the Central Seismological Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo...