Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that even such weather "stands in some rank of praise." The only possible occasion for such depressing optimism is the report of the doings of Mount Etna in Sicily. Granting that Italy could be no hotter than New England, yet such heat plus the temperature of molten lava must call up memories of Dante and his Inferno. Therefore the unselfish faith of the people, of Linguaglossa must be colossal, for they have approached within scorching distance of the lava to pray for their city...
...legend of Linguaglossa that once before, when the image of St. Egidius was held up, the oncoming flood of lava was stommed. Faith has brought to pass many miracles, including the splitting of the Red Sea. Perhaps such a nostrum is still effective. Perhaps by climbing to the house-tops to get as close as possible to the heat and, chanting a hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn...
Under a layer of volcanic lava in the state of Colima, Mexico, James Philomon, Scotch mining engineer, discovered an ancient city estimated to be at least 4,000 years old. The Mexican Government has sent an expedition to investigate...
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...