Word: corinth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of minor earth shocks and a score of major quakes occurred, last week, in a narrow area some 500 miles long and stretching from Varna, on the Black Sea across Bulgaria, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea to Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
Soon Minister of Communications General John Metaxas hurried out to the quake area from Athens. Said he, after surveying Corinth: "Nothing but a heap of ruins remains. No house can be repaired, and structures which still threaten to fall must be pulled down. The material damage amounts to at least 620,000,000 drachmas ($8,000,000)." Fortunately the loss of life was slight, since the population of .Corinth, terrified by preliminary tremors, took refuge in the open before the major quakes began...
...exhumation of the Athenian agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...
...Greek Government, grateful to my father for his work as Chairman of the Greek Refugees' Commission established by the League of Nations, had promised to place a gunboat at our disposal for the crossing from Corinth to Itea. Unfortunately the gunboat would not work and the Greek Government could only supply us with an auxiliary tender 65 feet long...
...Suddenly a tremendous gale swept down upon us and for hours we were buffeted and tossed about, while the Greek captain attempted to put back toward Corinth or one of the neighboring sheltered coves. . . . Eventually we were landed on a lonely stretch of shore, 15 miles from the nearest village. There was not a house or protection of any kind to be had. Rain and hail pelted us for hours. . . . At last one of our party walked to the nearest hamlet where there was a telephone, and an automobile was sent out by the Near East Relief at Corinth...