Word: tremors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Towards evening the President seemed in good health. Mrs. Harding and a woman nurse were with him. Mrs. Harding was reading aloud. Without warning a tremor shook his frame and he collapsed. Physicians were summoned. It was announced that the President had died of cerebral apoplexy at 7:30 p. m., Pacific time...
Professor Woodworth stated that this tremor was not unforseen as geologists had been expecting a similar disturbance in this particular locality for several years. They were led to this forecast from the fact that the shock was centered in the belt between the great earthquake of Mount St. Elias in the region of Alaska, and the San Francisco district. The former disturbance, which occurred in 1899, was the greatest shock that has taken place in North America since the white man's occupancy, while the San Francisco disaster was a serious shakeup in the earth's crust. The section between...
...forces of nature; but his ignorance of the forces of human nature is equally remarkable. We can run across the continent fifty miles an hour and fly through the air more than a hundred miles an hour. But within the last few weeks we in America were in a tremor of anxiety lest this mouth in all our towns and cities we should be hungry for want of food and cold for want of fuel, because the men on whom the community depended for food and fuel were quarreling among themselves and proposed to stop our supplies. Germany showed...