Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night-while they were experimenting with a diving helmet outside of Darwin Bay, Tower Island-a weird glare on the horizon. Steaming in that direction at once, the Arcturus came to Albermarle Island, largest in the Galapagos group, where two volcanic peaks were flaming with "fiery cascades of lava ... an unforgettably magnificent spectacle." The photographers on the Arcturus acted. Beebe and a companion, John Tee Van, attempted to approach one of the craters on foot, were driven back by poisonous gases. Forthwith Beebe dubbed the craters Mounts Williams and Whiton, after patrons of the expedition...
...STREET OF THE EYE-Gerald Bullet-Boni Liveright ($2.00). Simmering, sizzling, boiling, gurgling, spitting, the fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made...
...bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like Hell's lava; in the kermesse scene, he spun circles about the stage, silently, slowly, like Eden's snake risen from its belly. The cast supporting him had undergone changes for the better since last season: Antonia Cortis was a new, competent Faust; Claudia Muzio a tenderer Marguerite than the sprightly Edith Mason...
Undoubtedly he is a great power, perhaps the greatest power in Russia. His mind is a volcano spewing up from his revolutionary soul the cruel lava of Communism. In this he differs from Rykov (TIME, July 14), who is the conservative power functioning noiselessly. Grigori is "the bomb boy of Bolshevism," whose autocratic impetuosity has earned for him the title of "Red Emperor." Again, he is different from Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably...
Flying in two airplanes over the craters of Mt. Etna, Italian scientists were able to gather sufficient data to predict the end of volcanic disturbances. A number of photographs of the greatest value were taken, and observations made of the direction of lava streams may render practicable the erection of artificial barriers to check or eliminate future disasters...