Word: cavernous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed too often...
...Cave, a gloomy cavern on the shore of a long-vanished prehistoric lake, was the scene of the finding, which presents botanists with a treasure that has been the goal of scores of botanical expeditions. Two earlier groups from the University's Botanical Museum located varieties with primitive characteristics, but never found wild corn...
...seven nights last week, in the vast, vaulted cavern of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, thousands of New Yorkers crowded in to get a feeling of the fear and hope and comfort of religion from the Rev. Bryan Green of Birmingham, England. Anglican Preacher Green was providing New York with a sight not seen there since the 1880s-a diocese-wide revival mission under the auspices of the Episcopal Church...
Says Dart: "These intelligent, energetic, erect and delicately-proportioned little people were as competent as any other primitive human group in cavern life made comfortable by the use of fire, in the employment of long bones as lethal weapons, in the cunning and courage of the chase and in internecine strife...
...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...