Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masterful, mannish-voiced gynotheocrat, Bishop Alma White, 77. Once a Methodist, wife of a preacher, Mrs. White read herself out of her church because it frowned on her preaching. She founded a society of her own. That was nearly 40 years ago. Her church became known as the Pillar of Fire. Widowed, Mrs. White started a pious, shouting, camp-meeting community in New Jersey, named it Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained Elijah. Alma White was soon acting like a bishop toward her flock; why should she not be "the first woman bishop in the history...
...swim at 55, to paint in oils at 70. She has two radio stations, WAWZ at Zarephath, KPOF in Denver, where her Alma Temple is also a thriving concern. Her Prohibition plays, written with broadcasting in mind, had their premiere there. Her audience, recruited from Denver churches, thought them pillar-powerful, fiery-fierce...
...photograph of a rare outdoor night scene showing long, slim, spindle-shaped pillars of fire apparently streaming into the sky was last week turned up by Scientific American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...
...Pillar halos are caused by the reflection of strong lights from the faces of thin, flat snow crystals which tend to pancake while falling-that is, to keep their reflecting surfaces horizontal so that light rising from below is reflected practically straight down. Since turbulent winds tumble tiny snow crystals in all directions, thus dispersing the light, the brightest pillars are seen only on calm nights. A pillar is always the same color as that of the light at its base: the pillars above neon lights are red. The height of the halo is proportional to the strength...
Someone had apparently planted a high explosive bomb within, or in the attic above, the hall's central pillar. The explosion toppled the pillar, brought the ceiling down on the assembled Nazis' heads. Seven (including Maria Henle) were killed, 63 injured. Had the Führer stayed even for one glass of his special 1.0 beer, history might have taken a new course...