Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated furiously, filibustered for 28½ hours, refused to apply closure on the Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam bill...
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...Spokane, Professor Olaf Opsjon challenged archaeological skeptics to come and see for themselves the runes on a mossy boulder interpreted by him as recounting a battle between Indians and Norsemen fought in 1010 A. D. (TIME, July 19). Open-minded persons recalled a runestone unearthed 30 years ago near Kensington, Minn., which most experts view as the work of eight Goths (Swedes) and 22 Norsemen in the 14th Century...
...Washington, Professor Olaf Opsjon of Spokane probed and puzzled over ideographs found hidden beneath moss and lichen on a lava boulder near a burial mound. Other archaeologists awaited Professor Opsjon's reasons for believing that the runes were the work of a band of Norsemen in 1010 A. D., including 24 men, 7 women and a baby, who recorded their defeat by Indians during a Norse exploration hitherto unsuspected by latterday historians...
...made a vow never to do such a thing again. Herds of cattle that have climbed naturally to a knoll or ridge to escape lava, are said to have been "spared" by Pele, who sent her wrath around them. A man whose legs were clipped off by a hot boulder was said, after his demise, to have "stumbled into a crevice...