Word: crater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cracks in its 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...
...took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into the volcano's vents almost sucked the plane down); the next year, his seaplane landed on the lake inside the crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi. with only frozen beans for food. He was the first man to reach the top of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, the first to make a winter ascent of towering Katmai. "Gosh," he once chuckled to a newshawk...
...elderly apple vendor named Mrs. Nellie McCarthy to have her hair marcelled, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria in a silk dress. To exploit Bureau of Missing Persons, First National promised, in advertisements, to pay $10,000 to Manhattan's missing Judge Joseph F. Crater in case he asked for it in person at the box office. Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book...
Long sinuous flashes of lightning flitted through the sky. Aurora struggled to obliterate the darkness which had found a region conducive to its moodiness. Sparks and ashes emerged from a small crater while the inhabitants of Ponguelano scurried from alleys going toward the large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident...
...Ekins. "I saw the real picture of warfare today," he flashed from Lingyuan. "Passing through three lines of Chinese trenches I witnessed three Japanese airplanes flying out of the east circle low. . . . One plane dropped a bomb which exploded with a terrific blast, but, except for ripping a huge crater in the ground, it merely injured a 10-year...