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...sufficient violence to move buildings eight inches in the island's principal settlement, Hilo, on the east coast. In the mahogany and sandalwood forests and sugar plantations under Mauna Loa's great flanks, damage was extensive, though for the most part the lava followed its old paths, which lie arid and deserted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mid-Pacific | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Today I have put away all arid, spiritless charts, and raise my eyes unto the hills, and turn my steps toward them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/16/1926 | See Source »

...devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famed Progenitor of University's Gum Machine Benefactor No Ordinary General--Artemus Ward Was Soldier, Not Humorist | 4/3/1926 | See Source »

...sent out despatches that provoked excitement in the U. S. Senate. It appeared that at the instance of Austen Chamberlain, the Council of the League of Nations took measures to summon a meeting of nations next September to which it was understood that the U. S. would be invited, arid at which the matter of the U. S. reservations in joining the World Court would be clarified and the necessary acceptance gained for the U. S. reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Irreconciliation | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Died. Congressman Harry I. Thayer of the 8th Massachusetts District, 56, noted leather industrialist arid a former President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; at Wakefield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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