Word: omori
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...Stassen's private amazement, appointed him a delegate to the San Francisco Conference. But he was back with Halsey when the fleet moved into Tokyo Bay. There his big job was to get U.S. prisoners of war out of bondage. He began at a camp near Tokyo called Omori Prison Camp No. 8, was wildly cheered by gaunt...
...Omomura, cheerful scientist of the Nugata Meteorological Observatory, considered next to Dr. Omori the greatest expert on the origin of earthquakes, told the Japanese that another great and destructive shock will visit Northwestern Japan "within 20 years." "The deplorable fact is," he continued, "that in the present state of seismological developments there is no foretelling the exact date the visitation will come...
...department of geology and geography, Professor R. DeC. Ward '89 announces that the Bosch-Omori seismograph, or "tromometer," has been installed, but that, on account of difficulties experienced in the rusting of important wires which support the pendulum, the arrangements for measuring the exact time of earthquakes are unsatisfactory. It is hoped soon to obviate this difficulty...
...visiting committee of the division of Geology has provided the department with the funds necessary to erect a seismograph in the University Museum. A Bash-Omori seismograph with two 100 kilogram conical pendulums, one swung in the meridian and the other east and west, will shortly be placed on a suitable foundation in the basement of the Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year...