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...water. Little animalcules?human beings?swarmed about and ventured to walk on the monsters' cooling hides. One man?Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory?climbed high up on the protuberance?Mauna Loa, one of Hawaii's two active volcanoes and the largest in the world???to take observations...
...Governor Cremonesi, within five years Rome must appear as a marvel to all the people of the world???vast, ordered and powerful as it was in the time of the First Empire of Augustus. You will make open squares around the Augusteo Amphitheatre, around the ancient Marcello Theatre, around the Capitol, around the Pantheon. Everything that has been built around these monuments during the centuries of decadence must disappear. Within five years the Pantheon must be visible from the Piazza Colonna through a wide avenue...
...features of the meeting was an exhibit in the Kosais Temple of dental appurtenances. One hundred and sixty-four firms made displays. Dental tools, dental chairs, gold and silver for fillings, devices and contrivances, including the universally dreaded ogre of the modern world???the buzzing drills that find tender spots in all civilized mouths. The exhibit because of the precious metals included, was valued at $2,000,000 and eight detectives guarded it night...
...biggest shadow in the world??? 235,000 miles high, 105 miles wide, and 75 miles thick at its densest part?fell across San Diego today, the shadow of the moon as it crossed the face...
...Eighth Biennial Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association, in Manhattan. This was a truly international affair, in which women from all over the world???white, saffron, café-au-lait?took part. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came unexpectedly from Washington to deliver an address, at the instance of Mrs. Frederick Paist, his sister and President of the national organization. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., celebrated the convention by giving an international house-party for a number of delegates?including Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Denmark, and Mrs. H. C. Mei, head...