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...seem to recall, however, that while "major" or "maior" is the comparative, "magnus" is the positive, as "opus magnus" and not "opus maius." Unless there be some trick reference here to Maia, the goddess or month...
...Came to America to Play Zakuri in The Darling of the Gods with Blanche Bates in 1902; with Mrs. Fiske in Becky Sharp, Hedda Gabler, etc.; Disraeli in Disraeli, 1911-15; the Rajah in The Green Goddess, 1921; Sylvanus Heythorp in Old English...
...back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt to see the mountain but his disguise failed and he was stopped by the Tibetan soldiers, over forty miles from his goal...
Natives attributed the eruption to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of Volcanoes. Although Hawaiian mythology relates that Pele long ago agreed never to let the lava-flow menace Hilo, the natives, not altogether confident that the goddess would keep her bargain, sought to appease her last week with offerings of fruit and berries...
...then its goddess...