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Word: volcano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...withering, embalming vice of consistency." On himself: "I suffer from cacoethes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, and from vanity . . . and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics. ... I am pachydermatous. ... I am a veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano on behalf of Democratic principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Silver-Tongued Sunbeam | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be lighted in the daytime. The earth rumbled ceaselessly. Coast Guard commanders in the Bering Sea reported ashes falling 35 miles from the mountain, volcanic dust 100 miles away. In Unalaska, 350 miles from the volcano, chandeliers shook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mountain of Fire | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Regarding your reply to Michael Fanning about the "Irish Volcano" [TIME, Feb. 6, said: "Tom Mooney's grandparents emigrated to the U. S. from County Mayo, Ireland. If that makes their grandson a Russian, Stalin is a Dutchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Irish Volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Thomas J. Mooney has been simmering like an Irish Volcano." (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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