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...shock recorded on the seismograph in the Geological Museum on Thursday afternoon was an earth tremor of unknown origin, according to an announcement made yesterday by Professor K. F. Mather of the Geological Department...
From the University of Chicago comes a Committee report which delves into the mysterious realm of students' time. With something of a shock the investigators discovered that the mythical average student spent but 36 hours a week at his studies, devoted little time to serious reading and far too much to outside activities...
...have been the wife of Leopold Stokowski* from 1911 to 1923 would have filled life with sufficient eventfulness for most mortals, for few men have been more lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
...captain of the Vidar, on reaching Stockholm, reported that his ship had been "struck by something under water with an awful shock"; and experts representing the Admiralty were at once despatched to examine the Vidar's slightly damaged hull. They reported that "every circumstance connected with the affair seems to point to a collision between the Vidar and the M-1 when the latter was on the point of rising to the surface...
Former college stars, many of them of All-American calibre, form the shock troops of the "pro" game. The Giant roster includes Joppe, Tomlin, and McBride of Syracuse; Brennan and Williams of Lafayette; Milstead of Yale; Parnell of Allegheny; Benhert of Rutgers; Haines of Penn State; and Hendrian of Pittsburgh...