Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Likening the crust of the earth to a wrinkled layer of solid paraffin floating on an interior of melted paraffin, Reginald A. Daly, Sturgis Professor of Geology, discussed the roots of volcanoes before the American Geophysical Union in Washington Saturday...
...Germany the first installment. Ambassador Wilson was reminded that Germany had gone to "considerable expense" to revamp the LZ-130 from hydrogen to helium. Last week it became known in Washington that President Roosevelt had taken the question under personal consideration after the Departments of State and the Interior had split...
...Hebner ménage was a large sign which said NO VISITORS WANTED. Pocahontas townsfolk took the hint until last winter, when both Hebners ceased to be seen and a flock of buzzards was observed wheeling over their establishment. Neighbors then found that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several months old- was wearing a belt which looked like one that had belonged to Will Hebner. Authorities began to look for his wife, presently found her in Dade County, Fla. living...
Last week this problem became acute. From the interior of China came a cry from an agent of the League of Nations sent there last autumn when a Chinese plague of cholera threatened the world (TIME, Oct. 25). As cholera subsided, typhus rose, wrung from League Sanitarian Herman H. Mooser a warning: "The danger is imminent. Refugees throughout Central China are simply filthy with typhus-carrying lice. All the Chinese soldiers in the Lung-hai area (see p. 17) are lousy. There are no Chinese delousing stations, and we are half crazy trying to get co-operation from Chinese military...
...including religion. Last month the World's Fair made public its plans for expressing "the pervading influence of religion in every phase of American life." For its Temple of Religion it set aside 50,000 square feet, a many-sided 150-foot tower of vaguely ecclesiastical appearance. The interior, without seats, would serve for lectures and discussions of noncontroversial subjects. From one organ and a carillon, music would "softly pervade" the garden surrounding the tower. The Temple's ground would not be consecrated, nor would any denominational services be held...