Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most volcanoes, loud and pushing, build their cinder cones openly of fiery ash and lava. But a few volcanoes work under cover. Their molten lava never reaches the surface, but quietly pushes up the earth's rock layers as water from a burst pipe raises a blister in an asphalt pavement. Last week scientists were studying a report by Professor Hidezo Tanakadate, geographer at Tokyo's Hosei University, on the only undercover volcano whose birth and growth have been observed by scientific...
...child find out, by the oldfashioned, hard way, that fire hurts; a little blister is better than interference with a crawling child's new-found freedom, or than making fire into something forbidden and therefore tempting...
...afternoon will feature, besides the out-of-season race complete with a Marryin' Sam at the finish line, what is described as a "Schmoo Hunt--finders keepers," hiking--"a free schmoo for every blister," a tug of war with Wellesleyites, a softball game with Simmons girls, sack races, and a 75 cent picnic supper, followed by a "songfest...
Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister...
...Century. The roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...