Word: typhoonous
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...wealthy Mississippi plantation owner, Anne Walter annoyed her mother by studying medicine in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Then she went to China as substitute head of the Women's Hospital in Soochow, a "city of unmentionable sights and indescribable smells." Her energy got her the nickname "Small Typhoon." Buddhist priests spread the rumor that she would gouge out patients' eyes and mix them with copper to make silver. The sick frequently preferred "the death road" by hanging themselves rather than try her medicine...
...furniture beautifully handmade after designs by his wife, Noémi Pernessin Raymond, the architect demonstrated his principle: "nothing wasted, nothing inappropriate." Most interesting to readers and exhibition visitors were several feats in reinforced concrete: the serene and summery Tokyo Golf Club, light-looking but earthquake-and-typhoon-proof homes, the remarkable Women's Christian College in Tokyo (see cut) of precast and reinforced concrete, with everything from stained glass to concrete and wrought-iron altar made on the spot by Architect Raymond's crew of craftsmen...
...novelist describe a hurricane at sea and straightway critics raise a hue because his hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published...
...black day last week which was both the 15th anniversary of Japan's great Earthquake of 1923 and the 33rd anniversary of the Typhoon of 1905, the Empire was smitten by a no less violent typhoon which whirled through the neighboring cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, blew millions of tons of seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump...
...Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them on their way. Days later they missed their next landfall, Cape San Lucas, sighting no land until the Tres Marias Islands, south of the Gulf of California, hove into view. Thence they sped to Banderas Bay with a tropical typhoon whistling in their wake. They said they had put in for supplies, but Puerto Vallarta authorities questioned them, detained them after hearing the whole story...