Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to this hypothesis, the earth's crust has been estimated to be from forty to two hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may have existed between one and two millions years ago. To enable the audience to appreciate the length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life...
...picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide on the smooth crust of snow. The fight soon divided itself into two sections-the freshmen with the bowl man in their midst, striving to gain the gate on Thirty-fourth street, and thus put their man in safety, while the sophs were trying to tug the bowl after them and establish the desired...
...this country and in Europe has been so great that many have estimated that, if the present wholesale cutting is continued the Rhine, Elbe and other important streams will become unnavigable. The evidence of history is so marked that there can be no doubt but that the earth's crust is becoming deeper and that the cutting of forests has aided in this process. Governments have seen this and have established forestry bureaus for the preservation of the forests...
Unless by some unlucky chance we are treading upon the hollow crust which overlies the deep volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...
...gnaw my crust, and think, when I was younger...