Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Developments during the past few weeks in Europe have placed Herr Hitler in a precarious position. Having ridden to victory on a wave of nationalism, the new German chancellor may find that he is only a chip on that wave, powerless to change its progress. Bad as would be the effects of a war on Germany and the National Socialist party, the situation may force...
When a mighty, sickening temblor rocked the northeast coast of Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, experienced seacoast folk shouted not "Jishin!" (earthquake) but "O Tsunami!" (big tidal wave) and streaked for the hills last week...
Sure enough the quake produced a tidal wave. Thanks to the fleetness with which the Japanese ran and climbed, the wall of water drowned only 1,535, injured only 338, left only 948 missing. A grand total of 2,963 houses & buildings were swept away, 6,343 were inundated, 1,279 flimsy structures collapsed. As usual fire broke out, burned up 211 houses & buildings while sirens screeched, power lines snapped and a blizzard whipped the homeless...
Meanwhile the backwash of the tidal wave engulfed 1,533 small ships, damaged 85, sent alarming shivers along the steel spine of the liner Heian Mara, 400 mi. out at sea. Rushing on, the tidal backwash struck the Island of Hawaii (3,500 mi. from Japan) as a loft. wave which made things exciting on the beach. In Tokyo, while efficient Japanese clerks totaled up the disaster statistics. Director General Sinichi Kumitomi of the Central Seismological Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo...
...easy to determine. At Harvard the publicity attendant upon the institution of the House Plan, the superior financial position in time of depression, and the success of many of the athletic teams in recent years, can be cited as plausible explanations. But may it not be that the rising wave of popularity evidenced last spring was but the upswing of a cyclical movement which will sooner or later come to an end? And unless there is definite assurance that this is not so, would it be wise to rush into plans for enlarging the facilities to take care of larger...