Word: melts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into...
...Calif., darted last week into the world's most powerful sun-ray concentrator. Designed by Astronomer George Ellery Hale of Mt. Wilson Observatory, this "sun furnace" is 15 ft. long, has more than 30 lenses. When the rays reached the final focussing point, they were hot enough to melt a steel wire like an icicle in a frying...
...speech, wears old-fashioned stiff collars, voluminous cravats, striped trousers, heavy black coats. His round, Pickwickian cheeks dimple with smiles and he trains his frizzy grey hair to stand out in Dickensian tufts at the sides of his bald head. But his tongue is his greatest member. Trial juries melt before him. At Prague three years ago he reduced 7,000 Czechoslovakians to tears. On the platform he grows warmly evangelical about anything from the psychology of prison reform to the beauties of rare glass. A good though less vociferous friend of his is Professor Raymond Moley, another "Ohio...
...range of vision extended for 560 miles. Thus, if you ascended over Boston, you could see Philadelphia. Our one other trial was the fact that the sun started to melt the solder about the manholes, again putting us in danger of asphyxiation. Fortunately, we were able to descend before irreparable damage was done...
They'll snow hot devils in and make them cool. Your breath will melt and shrivel it.?Now puff, you puffers...