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...time bomb. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, a rugged old master of volcanology at the University of Hawaii, would not venture a guess on the day or month Mauna Loa would erupt, but according to his charts and records, 1946 is a climactic year in the volcano's eleven-year cycle. That cycle has been rolling along as steady as moonrise since 1832-and probably well before that. When the eruption comes, says Dr. Jaggar, there is a good chance that a stream of smoking lava will writhe slowly down the north side of the mountain and fill the shallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Year of Fire | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Meteorologists expect that the sunspot problem will recur with increasing intensity until 1948 or 1949. Spots run in eleven-year cycles-for reasons science has still to determine. The last big year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Irresponsible Ions | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...three longest: the 18-year Cavalier Parliament (1661-1679), the 13-year Long Parliament (1640-1653), the eleven-year Elizabethan Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Into History | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Methodists rate the Bishop high as a preacher, consider him as a middle-of-the-roader on theological and social questions. His four years in India made him missionary-minded. Under his eleven-year leadership the Cincinnati Area has topped all others in gifts for "World Service," Methodism's benevolence program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodist President | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

This collegiate ground-breaking is due in no small part to an eleven-year campaign by a bronzed, lean artilleryman at West Point. He is Colonel Herman Beukema, 50, Michigan-born son of a smalltown newspaperman. A West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Geopolitics In College | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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