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...history of the juvenile earth there was a single continent composed essentially of a granite crust floating on a glassy basaltic substratum. This unique continent was domed and furrowed in response to strains due chiefly to contraction of the cooling earth and to decrease in rotational velocity because of tidal retardation. "At the close of the Paleozoic Era, the east-west geosyncline of the northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system of mountains...Meantime, the continent was being domed as a whole...
...where the little stone houses of Horta-toy houses of pure pink, blue, yellow and white-rim the smooth-curved harbor. . . . One day last week the volcanic crust of the earth subsided under Fayal. Some 1,500 of the little stone houses of Horta trembled, crumbled, fell down. A tidal wave washed in to paw their ruins...
Suppose a radio station were set up at Moscow of sufficient potency to drown or "crash through" the programs of U. S. broadcasters. Suppose radio listeners in the grain and hog belts of the U. S. found their favorite station blotted out by an ether tidal wave of Communist propaganda. Would, or would not, the millions of U. S. listeners-in force the Administration into contact with the Soviets...
...broadcaster powerful enough to "crash through" any European station. Reputedly Soviet propaganda will be released daily at the hour, in the language, and on the wave length of the principal European stations. At the pleasure of the Third International, the new station may assumedly be used to produce "radio tidal waves" of "artificial static...
...Denmark, diggers in a Slesvig bog, struck whale bones six feet down, unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric species of leviathan which experts suggested might have been swept to his grave, 24 miles inland, by a tidal wave...