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There are three ways in which lava may escape from the lake, Mr. Hinds said, by overflowing the brim, through fissures, and through "tubes", which occur when molten lava has run out from under a hardened crust above, leaving a natural pathway two or three miles long and from 50 to 60 feet high. In the last eruption the lava overflowed but it has again sunk to its former level, about 120 feet beneath the brim...
...adventurers who had heard of the money magnates make in the movies and didn't see why they shouldn't make some themselves. They incorporated themselves as the Mutual Trading Company and expect to be gone eight or ten months, filming hula-maids and cannibals and fatu-lava birds wherever they find them...
...menace which shakes the foundations of our society. Growing up in Russia as the result of a great revolution, it seems to have gathered all the threads from the radical movements of the nineteenth century, to boil them up, and then launch them forth again in streams of lava that have crept into every phase of modern life...
Kilauea has been chosen for this model as a notable example of the Caldera type, in which eruption takes place through the welling up of molten lava. Mr. Curtis's model will be 12 by 8 feet in size, and on a scale of 1-1500, on which the figure of a human being would be about one-tenth of an inch in height...
...geological branch of the University Museum has been added, through Professor W. M. Davis '69, a collection of glaciated pebbles and tillite from the Divyker Conglomerate of South Africa. Various lava specimens, which were obtained in Mexico this summer, have also been presented. Professor G. L. Jackson '67 has contributed a large and valuable collection of fossils from different parts of Europe...