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Wave upon wave, coming in from the horizon, building up great mountains of water, building, coming, gathering, water and foam and sea power--then breaking against hard rock and warm sand, slapping with resounding boom, and washing back to the horizon again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Life of the Sea | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

...miners in Nevada's mountains, some 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas, heard a terrific explosion, saw a vivid flash near the top of Table Rock Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: End of a Mission | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Flames shot up from the lonely peak, then faded. Searching parties started out over snow that bogged horses belly-deep. Men toiled up over flinty rock that shredded boots into uselessness, struggled vertically up through some of the most difficult, barren rockland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: End of a Mission | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Their road led across the highest tableland in the world, the Karakoram plateau of northern Tibet. The Kazaks set their faces toward the blue, snowcapped 20,000-foot wall of the Himalayas, worked their painful way through steep narrow gorges, over wind-filled passes like knife cuts in the rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Great Caravan | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...said that in California, another active quake region, buildings are anchored to solid rock which shifts less than sand or gravel foundation bases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquakes Menace Japan More Than Enemy Bombers | 1/21/1942 | See Source »

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