Word: flows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be seen; here the lower surface of the lava is seen in cross section to be broken up into coarse fragments, now united by a sandy cement which is continuous with the sandstone below, and passes into a volcanic cement above, showing "where the slaggy surface of the flow was under rolled on a muddy bottom and the mud was forced up into the fissures," meeting in the cracks the still liquid lava from above...
...power to benefit a man, said Dr. Moxom, is limited by his willingness to receive. So, too, is it in our attitude toward God. If we open our hearts to His truth it will fill us and flow from us to help all around...
...juna district at the base of Mt. St. Elias, Alaska; a very complete set of views of the New Zeland geyser terraces, which were destroyed by the volcanic eruption of 1886. The exhibition will also include a number of views of volcanoes, with the geographical features resulting from the flow of lava, and also views of the underground structure of ancient igenus rocks as shown in various localities...
Xenocrates and Zeno of the Eleatic School contended that all Being was one and unchangeable, and that decay was non-Being. Parmenides had a similar belief. Opposed to these ideas was the doctrine of eternal change or transition, ceaseless flux and flow. Democritus, accepting in part the doctrine of Parmenides, evolved the Atomic philosophy, which treated from a scientific point of view, still lives in the atomic theory of today...
...speaker thought that Congress should begin to retire the notes at the rate of $30,000,000 a year. With the gold which would then flow into our treasury we could pay the outstanding notes. He advocated the increased use of national bank currency. This would give us the true requisites of currency-stability and elasticity...