Word: tremoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock recorded on the seismograph in the Geological Museum on Thursday afternoon was an earth tremor of unknown origin, according to an announcement made yesterday by Professor K. F. Mather of the Geological Department...
...earthquake was observed in the seismograph at the University observatory at 9.21 o'clock yesterday morning, according to Professor K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology. The quake was one of unusual intensity, not reaching its maximum until 14 minutes after the first tremor. The seismograph record indicated that the disturbance was about 4500 miles in a southerly direction from Cambridge...
...euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist and Professor Emeritus of Geology at Stanford University. Last week he declared that within the next ' ten years Los Angeles will be wrenched by a tremor worse than that of San Francisco...
Well, then, M. Aloys Van de Vyvere could certainly be depended upon. He could. For the first time, a tremor of enthusiasm moved the Belgian people when Premier Van de Vyvere formed a Cabinet and led it into the Chamber of Deputies. The Liberals, under the leadership of Burgomaster Adolphe Max of Brussels, eyed suspiciously the new Government," A little too Catholic," was the comment. "We want a 'business Cabinet','' hissed some. The result was that the Government failed to obtain that number of votes without which no Government can exist. M. Van de Vyvere resigned...
...Jericho went on to peruse a letter appended to the Graphic editorial, in which a presumed Graphic reader, one L. A. Wilson, besought the Graphic to "take the lead in criticizing the scare headlines in some papers which use such low-down tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that "no educational thoughts...