Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...awakened at 1:10 a. m. one night last week to find the world crashing about their heads. Straight across the country's "ankle," from Naples on the west to Foggia and Bari on the east, the earth heaved in the most terrible disaster since a quake plus a tidal wave snuffed out the lives of 77,000 Sicilians and Calabrians at Messina in 1908. More than 3,500 were reported killed last week, and how many thousands were injured no man knew. For four days after the quake the earth that had leaped in convulsion quivered with minor earthquakes...
...President Hoover last week motored around the tidal basin in Washington's Potomac Park, admired, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, the first pinkish-white bloom of the famed Japanese cherry trees which 'Mrs. William Howard Taft. when her husband was in the White House, received as a present from the Mikado and presented to the nation...
...more than a quarter-century after he had begun, he elucidated a sunspot theory, modestly crediting its discovery to the 17th Century heretic Galileo Galilei. Sunspots, Father Ricard declared, exert a definite influence on weather conditions, cause tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, affect even the moods of animals. After observing sunspots, he forecast California's weather for long advance periods...
...airports are thoroughly inadequate. For 25 miles around Manhattan, all the land is very nearly at sea level. To the east are the sand dunes of Long Island, to the west, the tidal mud marshes of New Jersey. Her airports are too far away, are all subject to fogs which render navigation impossible. (The seaplane base in New York harbor, while decreasing the distance to the centre of the city, will still be affected by fogs.) Because of fogs, U. S. airmail removed its original terminal from Curtiss Field, L. I., to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J., a distance...
Last week the City of Washington became a game preserve. Wild ducks were lured from their natural feeding grounds on the wild celery flats of the Potomac by scattering grain in the tidal basin, Washington's sanitary device near the Washington Monument...