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...there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...
While the U. S. Davis Cup team was having a good time taking all five matches from Germany last week on the Rufous Scoria courts of Berlin's Rotweiss (Red White) Club, sport-scribes were having a good time cabling details that did not appear in the scores. Some of the details...
...France. Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris. The shadow-casters were most of the ablest tennis amateurs in the world. The French championships in which they were engaged were the first big international matches of the season. Present to display their 1929 form were...
...Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch!" Outside the walls of Paris, the red scoria cinders of the running-track, in Colombes Stadium, ground out a rhythmic accompaniment to the gay, brassy blaring of four military bands, as some 2,000 feet, native to the soil of 45 nations, circumambulated the arena in unison. Ahead of all other feet, moved two belonging to Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic. He was parading to "open"* the eighth Olympic Games. "Flags and fair ladies waved. Cheer upon cheer rang...
Paris despatches announce that " nearly everything is in readiness " for the 1924 Olympic Games at Colombes, seven miles from the city. The stadium, though not yet complete, already seats 32,000. The fields and track within are long since done, the latter being of red scoria (volcanic cinders...
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