Hurricane
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Hurricane. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a destructive wind of the West Indies and the Atlantic coast. To place the hurricane in its right relation to the winds, the reader should consult first the article on CYCLONE. A hurricane is a whirlwind, not a straight-away wind. It is more violent and covers a smaller area than a cyclone. It is larger and less violent than a tornado. The diameter of a tornado is so small that the whirling motion is apparent. The diameter of a hurricane is so great that it seems like a straight-away wind. If a hurricane were to contract to a mere column, it would become a tornado. If it expand in diameter and die out into an ordinary breeze, it becomes a cyclone. Hurricanes are huge, violent whirlwinds that rise in the tropics and sweep across the West Indies and along the Atlantic coast toward the northeast. Once in a while one of these storms drives up along the western slope of the Alleghanies into the region of the Great Lakes , where it does damage to shipping. More frequently, however, the hurricane that takes this path expands in area and dies out into an ordinary cyclone. The path of the ordinary hurricane follows the Atlantic coast. In October, 1909, one of these characteristic storms followed this course. Notice was sent out that the wind was rising; the whirl was forming in the region of the Windward Islands. It passed across the western end of Cuba, unroofing buildings and uprooting trees. Twenty-five persons were injured; five lives were lost in Havana; fifty small ships and cargoes were sunk or blown ashore. Land and sea, $1,000,000 worth of Cuban property was destroyed. This storm, foretold a week in advance, struck Key West , Florida, with a circular velocity, it is claimed, of 100 miles an hour. Of 100 vessels at anchor, ninety-five were torn from their moorings; business blocks were wrecked; factories were destroyed; railroads were carried away. Many lives were lost; the damage to property in the harbor and the town cannot have been less than $2,000,000. The high wind continued at Key West from eight A. M. to three P. M. By the time the storm reached Savannah the velocity of the wind did not exceed sixty miles an hour. Wireless messages were sent from stations along the coast to warn ships en route of the approach of the storm. A similar hurricane in 1906 cost the lives of 140 laborers engaged in railroad work on the Florida Keys. A storm of similar origin and direction is frequent in the East Indies, where it is known as a typhoon. See Air ; Wind ; Cyclone
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a name applied to tropical cyclones occurring especially in the West Indies. They form in the equatorial regions and generally take a long sweeping course westward and northwestward, sometimes passing into the temperate zone, where they lose their most destructive character, but are still known as hurricanes on account of their velocities. The problem of handling ships in hurricanes has been worked out scientifically, one-half of the storm as it moves in circles being the so-called navigable half, while the other half is the "dangerous semi-circle" in which the wind not only more violent, but in which it not is would drive a ship rum running before it into the advancing path of the storm. The effect of hurricanes in raising tidal waves makes them dangerous to low-lying islands and coasts, as in the Galveston, Texas, disasters of 1900 and 1915. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 the United States Weather Bureau organized a special service to protect the American fleet from hurricanes. A chain of observation stations was established around the Caribbean Sea, and this service, now improved by wireless reports from ships, has been of the greatest possible value in protecting the vast amount of shipping bound to and from the Panama Canal. West Indian hurricanes occur chiefly from August to October, and they number on the average about four a I IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION LAW, signed by President Harding, May 19, 1921. By this law, which became effective fifteen days after being signed, the number of aliens of any nationality admissible into the United States in the term of any fiscal year up to July 1, 1922, was limited to 3 per cent of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality included in the U. S. Census of 1910. In accordance with this law, the total number of immigrants admissible in the thirteen months ending June 30, 1922, was fixed at 355,461. The passage of the law was the occasion of a frantic rush in European countries, especially in those of southeastern Europe, to get into the country before the restrictions began, and several nationalities had exceeded their quotas in the first fortnight.