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Professor Woodworth stated that this tremor was not unforseen as geologists had been expecting a similar disturbance in this particular locality for several years. They were led to this forecast from the fact that the shock was centered in the belt between the great earthquake of Mount St. Elias in the region of Alaska, and the San Francisco district. The former disturbance, which occurred in 1899, was the greatest shock that has taken place in North America since the white man's occupancy, while the San Francisco disaster was a serious shakeup in the earth's crust. The section between...
...unusually heavy earthquake shock was recorded yesterday morning by the Seismograph Station at the University. The vibrations began shortly after 8.24, and at about 8.40 became so violent that the needles which record them went off the drum on which the record them is made and put the seismograph temporarily out of commission. A rough computation by Professor J. B. Woodworth '94 makes the distance of the earthquakes about 4470 kilometres from Cambridge, or about 2778 miles...
...most interesting of the series. When the press suddenly announced last week that, after the naval ratio of the Big Three had been finally settled satisfactorily, France had turned the whole business topsy-turvy by asking for an increased navy, the news came as somewhat of a shock. All progress at Washington seemed to be in a fair way of being checked. The feeling of optimism that had spread over the country gave way to one of blank amazement. What did the French demands mean? She cannot pay for the navy she wants, said some; she is driving...
Certainly human nature does not change, notwithstanding what is said to the contrary. Just now there is a shock being endured by some minds because of the post-mortem honors being shown to Tom Slaughter, confirmed criminal and cold-blooded man-killer, who was assassinated by one of his own class after escaping from prison in the most romantic style imaginable...
...What is the answer to the conundrum recently set forth by white trousered painters under the eaves of Massachusetts Hall? We have stood across the street during the last two weeks in open mouthed astonishment at the power of the artist's brush. First came the shock of realizing that between the two little attic windows of Massachusetts there was a large billboard-like space. A few days later the face of a clock in gold began to appear. Yet a few days, and the whole business was submerged under a flood of bright blue paint...