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...long hours before dawn successive rumblings and tremors from the unseen mountain heralded increasingly violent showers of red-hot stones. Each volcanic groan made me wish I had never read the "Last Days of Pompet...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgic, | Title: Mt. Etna Erupting? "Say, that reminds me," Says Crimeditor: "Why, 'way back when . . ." | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

LIKE MANY A MISSOURIAN I GROAN TO NOTE YOU MENTION [TIME, DEC. 2] "PACKING 2O,OOO KANSANS INTO THE KANSAS CITY PHILHARMONIC CONCERT HALL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

With the fall sports program now declared officially dead, formal workouts for the grant and groan squad are being hold from 3 to 5:30 o'clock in the Wrestling Room on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building. Clarence Chief Boston, head coach for the season, will take up his duties next Monday now that he has finished as mentor of this fall's undefeated Jayvee football eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Matmen Train, 40 Strong, In Daily Sessions | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

Apparently the manly art of grappling is due for an upswing of interest during the months to come. Although official practice will not begin until after the Yale football game, already members of this winter's grunt and groan squad are getting into shape on the Indoor Athletic Building mats, and reports emanating from all corners of the University indicate that the team will not lack talent...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...mourners scurried away when the storm broke, but a party of naked mendicants had heard him groan and rescued him. Next morning the brother-in-law had rustled up another body to put on the pyre and finish the funeral. Shocked into amnesia, Roy had traveled and lived with the beggars for twelve years while his memory gradually returned. That was his story: now he was home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Appointment in Calcutta | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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