Word: cavernous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining farms, cause a destructive local earthquake...
...paint brushes down into Africa after the last glacial period, and on his first expedition to North Africa in 1912, Professor Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings. It was already known that in Magdalenian times some artist had smeared iron oxide on a cavern wall at Altamira, in north Spain. Cunningly he had fashioned a lively bison, with a fine high hump, muscular forelegs, a head set well enough to do justice to contemporary Animal Artist John Raltenbury Skeaping (TIME, May 3). In Khotsa Cave, 5,000 mi. from Spain in Basutoland, South Africa...
...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...right whale (Balaena glacialis) disported herself in the grey winter water near the tip of Long Island. Fifty-four feet long, she was accompanied by her 38-ft. infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured...
...person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered its cause, moonlight reflected through a crystal cavern. This was reported to the villagers who removed the precious rock, and by this act brought about the girl's tragic...