Word: flints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brucker, 47, and Watson, 45, are cavers of the first rank. For nearly two decades they belly-crawled toward what they call "the Everest of world spelology," a presumed connection between Kentucky's vast Flint Ridge cave system and neighboring Mammoth Cave. The possibility of such a connection must have occurred to Floyd Collins, the solitary caver who discovered Great Crystal Cave under Flint Ridge in 1917 and who died in nearby Sand Cave in 1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. Collins' grisly death stirred the nation's curiosity, and for years tourists in Crystal...
...Choked Fistulas. The Flint Ridge/Mammoth connection, which would establish the system as the longest known cave in the world, required techniques more organized and rigorous than Collins' lone adventuring. By the 1950s, when Brucker and Watson began caving, it was necessary to survey, with chain and compass, every foot of the miles of new cave then being discovered. Some of the finds were spacious passages and great, vaulted limestone halls, but far more often the explorers tried to keep their nerve intact and their carbide lamps lit while jammed into mud-choked fistulas less than a foot high...
...addition, his Southern Baptist evangelicalism turns off many working-class urban voters. This is acknowledged by Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, a key adviser. Said Young: "Nobody in the Carter camp now knows Milwaukee, Flint and Hoboken." Most of these voters are Catholics, but as Jordan observes, Carter's problem with them is more cultural than religious. Many urban ethnics are obviously suspicious of rural Southerners, particularly one who is overwhelmingly supported by blacks. Explained John DeLuca, former deputy mayor of San Francisco: "Part of it is his accent, and part of it is the fact that he wears his religion...
...novel begins with Alan Casper's Harvard application essay, written from Flint, Michigan, in which he says he expects Harvard to be "the place to which Western culture leads us, men and women nourished by their civilization, sophisticated in life, experienced, witty and at home with their own lust." By the time Alan graduates, he seems to have made great personal strides toward that ideal, having compiled the best academic record at Harvard since 1937, learned 497 foreign languages, and found true and passionate love in the Widener D-level stacks, among other places. Thus equipped, he decides...
...most of you have heard or read about THE JAR COLLECTION, the unique assortment of hand blown flint glass apothecary jars created over a century ago to house and display the remarkable collections assembled by Louis Agassiz during the first years of The Museum of Comparative Zoology...