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Earthquakes seem to happen at random; they seldom give advance warning, and cannot be predicted with any certainty. Last week Professor Hugo Benioff of CalTech explained his theory that all great shallow earthquakes (originating in rock slippage less-than 45 miles below the surface) have a common cause and are released by a single "mechanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Mechanism of Earthquakes | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Drips, egotistical, and with false superiority," a freshman commented, while a thoughtful senior stated, "If you take a random assortment of dates, the larger percentage is pretty hopeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffedwellers Think Harvard Dates Are Best Available, Survey Shows | 4/18/1950 | See Source »

...open a book at random. Discreetly buried beneath a mass of verbiage, of abstraction and obfuscation, we find the case of "Infant A." The case--presented here in condensed form--speaks for itself...

Author: By John X. Kaplan, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 4/1/1950 | See Source »

Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Random, informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME. March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...writers have explored it successfully; Meg is not in the same class with Richard Hughes's Innocent Voyage or A. L. Barker's Innocents (TIME, March 22, 1948). Author Keogh knows Meg, all right, but mostly from the outside, and her startling little novel seems more like random notes for a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not So Innocent | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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