Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within less than six months of the earthquake and tidal-wave catastrophe in Korea comes the fearful shock in Chili, destroying whole towns, cleaving the very bed of the Pacific to such extent that the sucked-in water receded more than three hundred yards from the shore-line...
Such in the startling theory of Dr. Getsinger, for thirty five years Egyptoloaist and research worker. First, he deduces from the marks of wave erosion which he finds at a common level on all the pyramids, that the Nile valley was for thousands of years under the sea. At this name time, he places the vanishing of the "lost kingdom of Atlantic". Years later Cheopa had the pyramids finished with smooth stone,--a publicity stunt still good after four thousand years. But nevertheless he was really only an interloper. Are not the "three stories" of Noah's Ark duplicated...
...decisive battle, to be sure, but as bare of any imagination stimulating incident as a scrimmage between two sandlot football team. The picturesque is gone; there is nothing of the blind king of Bohemia charging into battle among his knight, or the stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will learn what the issue was, fought between a handful of men, and what the result. But the players in the drama are non-existent and it is the players who make...
...nine hundred odd people killed each year to keep up New York's daily average of three deaths a day in street accidents (not to be confused with the far more impressive averages of the Crime Wave), it is safe to say that very few were ever Harvard men. Four years of struggle spent in crossing and recrossing the "Square" and the "Avenue" have reaped their reward. However the University may succeed in educating along other lines, it is certain that in the art of traffic-dodging, the training given is supreme. Anyone emerging from Cambridge alive, with or without...
Great interest naturally has attached to the recent discoveries of Mr. Hammond and Professor Chaffee in the field of wireless. By employing a sort of ethereal "hog-Latin" they are able to send out a jumble of waves which can only be understood by those in possession of the "key". All those who have ever enjoyed (?) the luxury of hearing Mary Garden, Sousa's Band and Bert Lowe's dance orchestra working away merrily at one and the same time on 360 meters will no doubt be delighted with this new system for secret wireless communication. To be sure...