Word: eruption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...
...This time a fractured lake bottom contributed heavily to the event by emptying a deep body of water in a sudden and enormous sluice upon mountain hamlets and terraced, rice-grown countryside. About 1,000 were killed, though a month of anticipatory rumbling had warned them to flee. The eruption was out of the bowels of Mount Tokachi, in the centre of Hokkaido, northernmost of the main islands of the island empire of Japan and last retreat of the Hairy Ainus.* One of the 50 technically active of Japan's 200 or more volcanic peaks, Mount Tokachi...
...which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...
Italy. The noted volcanologist, Professor Malladra, expressed satisfaction at a minor eruption of Vesuvius, which frightened out of their wits the grape growers who till the rich soil at its base. "There is no cause for alarm," he said. "I myself have been growing more alarmed month by month as the volcano has not erupted. The nature of its volcanic structure is such that it should erupt at a regular three-monthly period. Recently it has lagged behind its period for five months; and I confess to having felt great uneasiness lest the period should stretch to a year...
Others than isolationists will appear at the dinner, however. They are regular Republicans, who, it is understood, want to " sit on the volcano "?the theory being that the more who sit on a volcano, the less likely it is to erupt. The regular Republicans want the dinner to be a cordial welcome to one of their number, not the first boom of a new gun in the coming political campaign...