Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain is a capable four event man who has improved with each performance this year. He will be one of the four Crimson entries in the famous "Inferno" race down Mount Washington this weekend...
...final and most spectacular event of the year is slated for April, when possible resumption of the famous Inferno Race, discontinued during the war, may give the Crimson racers a chance to compete individually over a break-neck four-mile course which drops some 4000 feet from the summit of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch. The Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom Races, scheduled for Tuckerman's Ravine, may not be held unless the plans for the Inferno Race fall through, as the two groups will help manage the race at Pinkham...
First out of the inferno was squealing, kicking Beaugay, the fleetest two-year-old filly of the 1945 season. Somebody held her fast. Stable boys led out other terrified thoroughbreds; agonized screams came from horses still in the blaze. In 20 minutes, the worst fire in horse-racing history was over. The toll: 23 horses valued at about $400,000. Only six were saved...
...periods of quiescence Mauna Loa is a rough-surfaced, gentle-sloped mountain, 13,680 ft. high, with a hole in its head. But in eruption it is a thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...
Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...