Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centre of the earth a pillar of fire roared upward, burst through the crater's mouth, hurled itself against the satiny blackness of the sky. Huge volcanic missiles hissed through the air, making red wounds upon the face of the night. Scorching cinders curved outward in shimmering clouds and lava rushed over the volcano's jagged edges and started downward in an implacable, destroying stream. Vesuvius, terrible father of volcanoes, had unloosed his recurring wrath once more...
Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, will lecture at the Harvard Union tomorrow high at 7 o'clock on the topic "From Alpine Snows to Vesuvian Lava." The address, which will tell in part of the Geology Summer School's trip in 1928, will be open to Union members only. L. T. Grimm '29, vice-president of the Union, will introduce Professor Mather...
...sparks. Then the trickle turns to a stream, the stream reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with...
There was but the slightest quiver in the eastern part of Sicily last week. A few desultory rivulets of lava gurgled into the Mediterranean. The dread eruption of Etna (TIME, Nov. 19) was over...
...deal with reparations and relief unassisted. Estimators were busy. Damage cost was put roundly at $18,500,000. With fine exactitude the number of homeless was put at 3,952. Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava...