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Scientists pondered the phenomenon. Was it an earthquake? Seis- mographs sensitized to the slightest disturbance for thousands of miles had recorded nothing. A tidal wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...
...state that, so far as we have observed, there have been no efforts to interpret the devastating floods in the Mississippi valley as punishment inflicted by an outraged deity upon the sinful dwellers in the lowlands. If the calamity had been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities. It was so with Galveston, San Francisco and Florida. It is doubtful whether there has been...
...DUNES-Harry Kemp-Brentano's ($2). To masculine Poet Harry Hibbard Kemp, neo-Whitmanian, who, bred in Kansas, has gone around the world on 25? and studied "tramping" for years, the sea and its gulls, its tidal slime, fog, dunes and shiny-footed waves, is a source of life in strong, recurrent phases. The first two dozen pieces of this volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful...
...always 39.2°. No matter what the surface temperature may be, the depths are at just a little above freezing (32°). Georges Claude would drop a long pipe to the ocean deep and pump up cold water to condense his turbine steam. A totally different method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany...
...social, industrial, political snobbishness. New Englanders go about in high stiff collars, each tending his own business. They should take off their collars and work together.- Such is his diagnosis. The prescription includes the pooling of electric power resources in all the six New England states (including the Passamaquody tidal power project; see p. 28); the social unification of diverse peoples towards their common prosperity ("By and large New England is better off because of the immigration which she has had"); inter-related transportation ("Co-operation or unified action by the New Haven and the Boston & Maine should enable them...