Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student egg-and-rock riot at Des Moines University (TIME, May 20). Dr. Shields, as President of the Trustees, demanded from University President Wayman the expulsion of six members of the faculty. To Fundamentalist Shields these members looked like Modernists. But President Wayman would make no expulsions. Followed the Shields expulsion of the whole faculty, the riot...
...freshman year, Miss Henry was discussing rock specimens with Prof. Branner in his laboratory. A stocky, serious-looking young man came in. He was a senior. Prof. Branner introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
...with a 35,000-share order, Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.-almost inactive for months-turned over 516,400 shares in the day's trading. Arkansas Natural Gas is a subsidiary of Cities Service Co.-unique Henry L. Doherty being president of both companies. A. N. G. supplies Little Rock, Ark., with gas; owns some 635 miles of gas mains and transports some 35 billion cu. ft. of gas per year. In addition to its 16,000 acres of proven gas leases, however, it also controls 33,000 acres of proven oil leases, and almost 300,000 acres of undeveloped...
Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...
...important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will deal the most telling blow...