Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a day of uncertainty, they saw the lava slip slowly down the slope. Little jets of steam hissed from the mountain's side. The 10,000 inhabitants reluctantly prepared to leave. White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano. In supplication and prayer they bore relics of St. Vitus, born in Sicily, or St. Leonardo, their patron saint...
Coincident with this new eruption of an old but by no means superannuated volcano, came a statement from the London Times to the effect that its readers might soon expect the publication of a comparatively complete report of the oft-reported but still mysterious Malines Conversations. In its statement, the Times asserted that at the time of the Malines Conversations an unofficial representative of the Vatican expressed Rome's willingness to grant the British Primate a rank in the Roman hierarchy "equal to and perhaps above the cardinals," should he desire to accept the Roman Catholic faith...
Solomon Islands only 500 miles from Papua, is Hannibal Hamlin, 24, great-grandson of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first vice president. He heads the Whitney South Sea Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. His present despatches report him having reached the crater of Balbi, active volcano on the northwest coast of the Island of Bougainville. For aids through tropical rains, mud and brush he could get only two Polynesian sailors. Natives, however, did not molest...
Radio warnings, sent by the Dutch government, are now scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa. The small island volcano in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, is yeasting to explode again. Already it has drooled a small land mass into the adjacent water. At any time it may blow...
...known as Volcano House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...