Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peninsula of Kamchatka, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, the volcanoes Montnovsky and Avatchinskayasopka erupted amid earth quakings and buried the snow covered city of Petropavlovsk beneath avalanches of molten lava...
...Goose nor Alice's dormouse nor the mouse that did not stir the night before Christmas nor even Ignatz Mouse* himself, have histories to compare with the lemmings', who date back to Norse mythology and further; back to Miocene days when lemmings periodically migrated from the Scandinavian peninsula to another continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist. The lemmings have not yet learned that their oldtime highways are gone. At uncertain intervals (sometimes after five years, sometimes after 20) they mass on an edge of the Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration...
...dream and build, after ten centuries, the world-wide Spanish Empire, are truly Homeric in their subject matter. But few tales are more magnificent than that of the phenix of a free united Italy, rising from the ashes of the fires of revolution that had swept the peninsula so long...
...Japanese warship Manshu last week, with arch-plotters aboard (see p. 18). They had been plotting for six months in the Pacific; had plotted the deepest spot yet discovered in the world's oceans, an abyss 9,435 metres (a little over 5 miles) deep between the Izu Peninsula, Japan, and the Bonin Islands. (Previous depth record: 8,500 metres [about 4% miles] off the Kurile Islands, plumbed by the U. S. S. Tuscarora...
...visitor came last week to the U. S. He was Widgery Thomas, 87, onetime U. S. Minister to Sweden, who has spent most of his life on the southern tip of Scandinavia's peninsula and hopes to die there. He said: "What President Coolidge should do in order to assure that we get the right type of citizens is to wink both eyes at the number of Swedes that come to the United States and forget the restricted immigration quotas...