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Using the coined term "abyssolith" meaning bottomless stone, Professor Daly explained the nature of the connecting masses between the volcanoes and molten interior. When the abyssolith's supply of surface lava combined with steam and other gases under ter- rific pressure is exhausted, the volcano goes...
...right smack on a tack I woodn't aben more surprized then I wuz ter larn how many TIME readers wuz former apple butter stirrers. Why, shucks, th' mailman thot Xmas was here already, jedgin from th' extra letters he's had ter deliver...
...mighty fine o' yer ter let yer readers know about our "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose Of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories Of Apple Butter Stirrin Days." And th' former apple butter stirrers thet's rote in 're mighty grateful...
Course nearly all o' us wood trade our false teeth an hot water bottles fer some o' th' good old apple butter agin. An if yer kin find some feller thet'll guarantee ter make as good apple butter as we use ter stir, all he's got ter do is tell us about it in TIME (an he woodn't need a big ad), and his fortune's made. Fer most all o' us wood be reglar customers...
...aint much of a hand ter join no organizashuns, not even the kind that keeps alive memories of stirrin apple butter, butcherin and all them chores we used to do down on the farm in Indiany. The old purplish-brown apple butter used to come thru them hole in the paddle like somethin it aint so pleasant to think about, but just the same that ain a bad idea of yours. If they has organizashuns for folks that used to pump pipe organs, why not ? But don't you think then orter be a requirement that...