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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...
Every September such pleas for Disarmament have been heard in Geneva from the minor nations, from Sweden, Norway, Holland, Bulgaria. But not in many a year has a Great Power galvanized the League Assembly with such demands as Jack-in-the-Pulpit proceeded to spout...
...grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean-cut as a broad band of black ribbon. ... It was exactly seven minutes from the time the spout first formed until it faded into the black depths of the moving squall...