Word: spoutings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while someone catches words out of the air and gives a nation an inspiration. We need something to raise our eyes beyond the immediate horizon. A great nation can't go along just watching its feet. I'd like to see something simple enough for a child to spout in school on Fridays. I keep looking for it but I don't see it. Sometimes a great poem can do more than legislation...
Biggest coffee pot in the world is the U. S. coffee pot. Into its cavernous maw is dumped nearly half the world's total average annual production of 250,000,000 bags. About half is poured in from cans and packages, about half in bulk. Out of the Niagaran spout are poured 60 billion cups a year?one and one-third cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild...
Yellowstone National Park's Splendid Geyser, after 39 years silent digestion of water, steam, rock and heat, last week labored and threw up a 100-ft. spout of steaming water. Daisy Geyser nearby, which has been erupting every 100 min. ever since white men have known it, paused. After a two-hour delay Daisy went to work again. Old Faithful, some distance away, faithfully continued its 65-min. spouting, but small geysers, boiling springs and mudholes nearer the Splendid were drained of their waters. Two park employes posted themselves beside the Splendid to record its behavior...
...ready, the barrel rolled down its track, was touched off by electricity when it reached the end. The first charge did not work, but the second did. Satisfied with their job, the flinty-faced Kinleys got ready to go home. Others prepared to cap the gusher which continued to spout 50 ft. into...
Since the death of Siegfried Wagner last summer, rumors and schemes for future Bayreuth Festivals have emanated from the little Bavarian village like steam from the spout of a teakettle. Most stories have concerned Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose stock has at present greater international value than that of any living conductor. Toscanini, said one rumor, would take over the complete artistic direction. He might even build a home in Bayreuth, pass the rest of his summers there...