Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your write-up of the Holy Year is unusually good and readable. There is only one error, if I understand the thing correctly. You refer to St. Peter as the "founder of the Church." Not correct. Christ founded the Catholic Church; He built it on Peter; Peter was the rock on which the Church was established. Your error is not a rare...
...pudgy finger to a spot that reads: "In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reported tomb of the very founder of the Church." No writer of gospels himself, Peter thumbed his way to St. Matthew 16:18, where he read: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against...
Again last week the innards of Carbon Mountain, a hill in the southwest corner of Colorado three miles south of Durango, churned and rumbled. Fissures opened in its slopes, oozed warm earth. Surface rock, amateurishly estimated as 25 million tons, avalanched down into Animas Valley to the north and might have rumbled on into Durango> did not Smelter Mountain intervene as a retaining wall. But Durango's citizens were calm. The breakup of Carbon Mountain has been going on since mid-December...
...that time the face of Carbon Mountain was a sheer cliff. Rock near the crest of the cliff, with slight forewarnings, cracked off, crumpled and crashed 150 ft. to the valley floor. Carbon's vertical face thus became a slope...
...Durango. Local men hazard diverse opinions. One supposes that coal beds deep within Carbon Mountain have ignited, generating gas which is bursting the mountain apart and forming cavities into which the mountain collapses. For evidence the burning-coal theorists point to a gas-like hissing which often accompanies a rock slide, to the sulfurous smell, and to pieces of shale charred red and yellow. On the other hand. Dr. S. Boyd Calkins, science teacher in the Durango high school, points to the earthy effusions which last week oozed from Carbon's cracks. These outpourings, he reasons, rose from, depths...