Word: tornado
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Bureau officials had foreseen these storms, but had not warned the public. Last week they explained why: it is impossible to tell just where tornadoes will strike, therefore "to predict them would cause more trouble by the unjustified anxiety aroused than is likely to be done by a tornado itself." To this the New York Telegram retorted editorially...
Georgia Tech's Golden Tornado petered out against the hard-running members of Carnegie Tech's pony backfield. Carnegie Tech 31, Georgia Tech...
...Down with Hindenburg!" last week (see col. 2), but no such blatant outburst marred the triumphant passage of Old Paul through the newly liberated Rhineland (TIME, July 14 et seq.). In city after city massed thousands greeted the venerable president first with a reverent hush, then with a tornado of delirious "hochs...
...people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. First instinct of those who have seen this terrifying natural phenomenon, which links heaven and earth with a dark, serpentine Jacob's ladder, is to get out of its path...
...waterspout, often a mile high, 200 ft. in diameter, carries a great volume of water which it sucks from the sea. Terrifying to seamen by virtue of the fact that the column whirls at the rate of 150 m. p. h., these twisters are seldom long lived. Tornadoes over land last longer, travel from 30 to 50 mi. Greatest in the U. S. was that of 1925 which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live...