Word: cavernous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elderly woman passed a handful of gold-pieces to a bank teller. "They're good," she said. "That's just a little mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls, fathers carrying children clutching baptismal coins, trudged to the postern of the Federal Reserve Bank. "Gold?" asked two armed guards. A nod, and each figure passed in. Midnight was the deadline for the use of gold...
...afoot. This goes to show that in a mystery story not even the hero should jump to conclusions. Still, you can hardly blame Jim (who was not overly given to suspicion), for he never laid eyes again on the scarred man till they suddenly met in a dripping cavern, in the dark. Between those two meetings Jim had plenty to think about...
...Dawes & friends wandered last fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...
Carlsbad Cave. A bright young man prepared last week to probe big, black Carlsbad Cave, the vastest known cavern in the earth, and disturb the millions of bats living therein. Frank Ernest Nicholson, 28, Texas-born journalist-explorer, within the fortnight will take a typewriter, radio transmitter, telephone with lengthy wire, block & tackle, torches, cameras, food, a physician, a mineralogist, an electrician, a representative of the Department of the Interior and four helpers to a cliff of the Guadalupe Mountains 100 miles from El Paso, Tex., and 30 miles south of Carlsbad, N. Mex. Near the cliff's foot...