Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there will be baseball games between the Engineering Club and the Mining Club, and between Holworthy and Stoughton. Men are urged to from other teams and to bring their own gloves, bats and balls. There will also be swimming races and field games. The events will include the 100-fathom dash, putting the 20-pound clams shell, throwing the half-pound lobster, and kicking the bucket (form and distance considered). Special attractions are offered to all ologists including Zoos., Geols., Psychols., Archaeols., and Palaeonts., also to botanists and students of forestry. Members of the Natural History Society will given...
...completely who does not consider both the mass of solid facts which scientists place before us, and the sea of mystery which lies beyond these facts. Scientists themselves have to confess that in spite of all their endeavors there are mysteries concerning the nature of reality which they cannot fathom. So too, treating religion scientifically, those who seek to explain it touch on mysteries which they cannot explain...