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Word: bliz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glaciers spurts steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific laboratory and the conditioning gymnasium of sturdy young Father Ber- nard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., "the Glacier Priest," head of the geology department of the Jesuit University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glacier Priest | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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