Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both, are the cause. The whole area of Alaska is an earthquake zone. Added weight in the ice-filled catchment basin, caused by new snows or an earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier. It is a wave motion and the longer the glacier, the longer it takes to reach the foot. Scientists pooh-poohed a man named Lawrence Martin when he declared right after the Alaskan earthquake of 1899 that it would set a whole string of coastal glaciers in motion years later. He made up a time-table...
...this movement exhausts the catchment basins. And even the heaviest Alaskan snowfalls we can hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...
...transmitting regular classroom lectures and other University activities over station WIXAL, Memorial Church service was broadcast for the first time yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Henry S. Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, of New York City, conducted the service, which was broadcast on a wave-length of 15.35 megacycles...
...next church service will be broadcast Sunday, March 28, at the same hour and on the same wave length...
...head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five or six blocks or one block with or without straining. He cannot run ten miles in an hour and he cannot tow a boatload of hysterical women a distance of one mile against wind, wave and tide as he claimed...