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Last week, one Signor Barolo of the Italian Alpine Club ascended Mt. Etna and then made, singlehanded, the dangerous descent into the crater. Notable as this feat was, it did not compare, in the endurance of hardships, great hazards and magnificent feats, with the circumstances which must attend an attempt on Everest. Yet when Signor Barolo returned he gave out these remarks to the press: "I went carefully and slowly, testing the ground with my stick at each step and I managed, at last, to get down the steep sides of the crater. My progress was also hampered by evil...
...crawled down toward the mouth, which opens almost in the center of the crater, and looked in. The sides are very steep and inaccessible. The only way to penetrate into the inmost secrets of the volcano would be to come with companions and be let down by ropes? a fascinating adventure, which I hope to undertake if I live and if the god of mountains protects me. From invisible depths, columns of irritating gases made me cough badly...
...Italian archeologists planned to secure government support to raise and salvage two large ancient Roman ships at the bottom of Lake Nemi, in the crater of an extinct volcano. The vessels have been examined by divers, and were probably luxurious houseboats used by the Caesars...
...followers for 21 years have been trained to expect. Dorothy Stone is the poor girl; she marries the disguised Prince. Father Fred is Peter Plug, a plumber, who stands by in every scene to protect her from the villainous hardships set upon a musical comedy heroine. Mother Stone (Allene Crater) also plays a prominent part and marries Peter Plug at the last-to the wild delight of the audience...
...with the new 4,300-pound demolition bomb, carried by a Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon. Released from midair, the bomb buried itself in compact, sandy soil. A moment later the explosion threw soil almost 1,000 feet into the air and left a crater 19 feet deep, 64 feet in diameter. One thousand cubic yards of earth had been displaced...