Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flung her red-hot wrath. But in Kilauea a molten lake still lies, bubbling and puckering, rising and sinking, belching fumes, occasionally spilling over, dribbling Kilauea's flanks with fire. High above Kilauea, in old Mauna Loa, Pele still broods. Five years ago she hurled a 600-ft.-wide stream of lava down towards Hilo, principal city of the island of Hawaii. The lava was only three miles from the municipal water reservoir, within twelve miles of Hilo, when a squadron of Army bombers dropped 1,200 Ibs. of explosives into Mauna Loa's vomiting crater, diverted...
Last week Pele stirred again, cracked the back of Mauna Loa. From a jagged rift on the mountain's slope shot a cascade of fire hundreds of feet high, 150 to 200 feet wide. Fortunately for the citizens of Hilo, the lava moved down toward Kau Desert, on the opposite side from the city...
...bombers penetrated by night to a seaplane base on the Baltic, blew up a munitions ship passing through the Great Belt. But on the face of it the Germans had the advantage by air, with many more planes and with land bases on both sides of the 75-mile-wide Skagerrak...
...last two years, Hatch has pitched the Jumbos to three wins over the Crimson. His mates batted him to a 13 to 4 victory in the spring of 1938 as Slim Curtiss was blown wide open on the mound. Last spring Healey was twice the victim of Hatch's skill on the hill, as the Stahlmen went down...
Talks by Dean Chase, the Chairman of the Harvard Radio Committee, and by Loring Andrews, Program Director of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, will highlight the first program. Immediately following will be "Jazz Lab," a program treating the developments of types of jazz from its beginnings to modern swing. This program will run until 7:45 o'clock...