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...second column in referring to cyclones, I find: "The term cyclone among meteorologists . . . is equivalent to the older usage of whirlwind, and it is unfortunate that misunderstandings often arise because local usages in America apply the word cyclone to what has for centuries been called a tornado...
Only slightly less ignorant than the peons of Tehuantepec were folk and newspapers that talked about the Equinox in connection with these earthquakes; or with a howling hurricane that last week swept Louisiana, torrential rains that flooded Illinois, Iowa, Missouri; with a tornado in Nebraska and Kansas; with the worst typhoon of years in Japan (100 killed); and other portents of the week. In the first place, it was not yet the Equinox, which comes Sept. 21-25, when the earth reaches a tilt in the heavens such that the plane of its equator passes through the sun, making...
Perhaps 900 refugees in all were whipped from their homes by the tornado of shell fire, ambushed by "duds," harried by whining bullets...
...GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble birth...
...work of the Red Cross in peace times consists of aiding disabled veterans of the World War and sending immediate relief in cases of disaster or emergency. During the last year vital aid was given in 90 catastrophes ranging from tornado and fire to mine explosion and earthquake. The peace time purpose of this organization is given in the Congressional Chapter; "To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and to apply the same in mitigating the suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise...