Word: rock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evanescent in character. Democracy of learning, which should mean scientific knowledge, technical skill, and spiritual culture must, in their elements, become the possession of every member of a democracy, else that democracy is not a reliable one and a permanent one. The governor of New Hampshire is striking at rock bottom. What we need in this world is less remedies and more precautions. Educate the peasant and the slave and less dupery shall exist. Certainly it is too late to elevate the laborer; educate rather the child. Open wide the door of opportunity; the ability and capability, of man await...
...minerals studied in the lessons is furnished each member of the class. By this means an intimate acquaintance is obtained with all the common minerals of the world, such as the ores from which gold, silver, copper, lead, etc., are procured, and the chief mineral constituents of rock, as granite, limestone, and sandstone. Lectures will supplement the work with specimens...
...assure you. Save for our presence and that of a few civilians who have come back to take up the sorry task of rebuilding and rehabilitating--yes, and save for an occasional air raid--we might as well be in some old stone quarry, camping by piles of scrap rock...
Photograph Committee. -- Chairman, Edward Cabot Storrow, Jr., of Readville; Harrison Cabot Brown, of San Francisco, Cal.; Clarence Rodgers Burgin, of Quincy; Sherman Damon, of Brookline; Samuel Wesley Fordyce, 3d. of Little Rock, Ark.; Roger Weare Gratwick, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Jabish Holmes, Jr., of New York City; Nelson Rulison Knox, of San Rafael, Cal.; Henry Munson Spelman, Jr., of Cambridge; John Murray Steele, Jr., of Garrison, Md.; George McDougall Weeks, Jr., of San Francisco...
...battle, and who, even now, are sorely pressed for our assistance. America has for a year been in a dream, patting herself on the back for the purity of ideals which only a few of her men have yet actively supported. America must come down to the bed rock of reality...