Word: geysered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most ingenious of the editors solved the problem; and so the Harvard Herald will announce in its first issue a magnificent and stupendous contest. To the member of the College who submits to the Herald the best 1000000000 word explanation of the "Wherefore and Why of Old Faithful, the Geyser at the East End of Wigglesworth Hall," will be given a five hundred thousand dollar prize...
Yellowstone National Park's Splendid Geyser, after 39 years silent digestion of water, steam, rock and heat, last week labored and threw up a 100-ft. spout of steaming water. Daisy Geyser nearby, which has been erupting every 100 min. ever since white men have known it, paused. After a two-hour delay Daisy went to work again. Old Faithful, some distance away, faithfully continued its 65-min. spouting, but small geysers, boiling springs and mudholes nearer the Splendid were drained of their waters. Two park employes posted themselves beside the Splendid to record its behavior...
Japan, the Malay Archipelago and South America have geyser regions. But they do not compare in number or size to those of Iceland, New Zealand or Yellowstone. Yellowstone's are the biggest and best to look...
...Geysers are caused when water plugs a vent from the earth's hot interior to the surface. The interior heat boils the deep water, which at first cannot escape because of the weight of the water higher up in the hole. A moment arrives when steam pressure is enough to lift all the water out of the hole. At that moment practically all the pent water suddenly changes to steam. The geyser spouts, subsides, until the critical steam pressure is again built up by subterranean heat...
...attitude becoming prevalent. The general public will simply make a few choice remarks about "fool college boys" and let it go at that. But a good psychologist could probably give a very interesting dissertation on the secret springs in adolescent human nature which occasionally break out in the geyser. like proportions of students riots. Naturally elderly gentlemen don't start riots. In the first place because they wouldn't dare, but more than that, because most of them wouldn't want to. Most students dare at all times, and sometimes they want to, for there are occasions when youthful energy...