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State geologists sped to the scene, not knowing beforehand whether to attribute the subsidence to dissolving limestone strata over subterranean caverns, or to some extinct volcano's clearing its throat and swallowing. When Geologist G. S. Lambert arrived, the volcano theory was discarded. He called attention to the nature of a round lake some six miles away, called Old Maid's Pool. From its formation, it had evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble...
...international understanding will be served by the members of individual governments saying what they would do or what they would not do at the forthcoming meeting of the great world council. I do not see how we will ever come to an agreement if each of us announces beforehand our policy and is unwilling to make any concessions...
...anyone might judge beforehand, the result is bad. Just how bad no one would ever guess without actually seeing...
...actual practice, no tutoring school thus circumscribes its activities. It presumes to be a regular supplement to University instruction. Sometimes it even becomes a substitute on which men, deliberately and beforehand, choose to rely. It need hardly be pointed out that these institutions stand in direct opposition to the University in their ideals of education, if that term can be used for the objects which they foster. The tutoring school is a caricature of modern education, a pedagogical buzzard hovering on the outskirts of an institution of learning. And when it chooses to prey upon men preparing for divisional examinations...
...LeRoy watched the goings on, and when they were over returned to his little workshop uptown with the comfortable feeling that, even if the notables had not paid much attention to him, he was directly, almost solely, responsibile for their party. He had asked them beforehand if they would like to place something truly historic in that cornerstone and when they said "yes," had given them the first four strips of film that any man ever ran through a motion picture projector...