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...collector of notes on subjects that have diversity-such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alligator Stuffing | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater in Arizona they have not been successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Receives Many Replies To Appeal For Meteor Reports--Millman Reveals Significance of Astral Nomads | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

Eruption. Only volcano in the continental U. S. is Mount Lassen, Calif. Its last real eruption occurred in 1914. But last week its crater was stuffed with smoke bombs, pyrotechnics and red fire which were set off before a large throng to simulate another eruption and mark the dedication of Lassen National Park. Chief speaker: Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Frontier Days | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Battle of the Bowl, more points will be scored in the Colossal Crater of Connecticut tomorrow than Harvard has scored in the last five games* The majority of these points will find their way into the Crimson scoring column, but the margin of Havard's victory will not exceed three points...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: HUEY, OFF FOR BOWL, NAMES HARVARD TO WIN TOMORROW | 11/21/1930 | See Source »

...Rockies. Over the first range, the Continental Divide, near Winslow. Then into a glory of reds, greens and browns if the atmosphere is clear and the afternoon sun bright, across the fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze up from their doorways in the face of the earth at the winged monster on high. Beyond Kingman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Big Trails | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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