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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Last week they decided to put on a show of strength, invited the public (in newspaper ads) to come to an initiation party. About 2,000 responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Again, the Klan | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...together a fascinating booklet on the subject (Water-supply Paper 416; 15?) which told the history of the dowsers, beginning with Moses, who lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (Numbers 20: 11). Few modern dowsers hoped to equal Moses, but some of them offered prizes, such as oilfields or mineral deposits, which Moses and his nomads never coveted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: With Hazel Wand & Twig | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Most volcanologists think that volcanic and earthquake activity occurs along profound rifts in the earth's subsurface, cracks running down as much as 100 miles or more. At those depths the temperature is high, the pressure strong and steady, and earth material a homogeneous magma of plastic rock. This pressure and material are the source and force of a volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Year of Fire | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

After an eruption has released the pressure, the top layer of the molten rock cools and hardens, sealing the volcano temporarily. The cap can contain the pressure for a time-depending on the peculiarities of the individual volcano-when it cracks open again with a rush of burning gas. Molten magma boils up, whipped to a froth by the gases. After the pressure has been relieved, the eruption subsides, the cap forms again and the cycle of eruption is complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Year of Fire | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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