Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reisner's assistants who had the honor of actually finding the tomb. Allan Rowe '09 and T. R. Greenlees were working according to a plan of action drawn up by Dr. Reisner before leaving, on the plateau of solid rock between the pyramid of Cheops and the Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered...
...sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...February, Rowe and Greenlees were astonished to find in the rock surface a rectangular bed of plaster of paris. There seemed to have been little attempt at concealment because with the mud and small pieces of rock conglomerate brushed off the plaster was instantly recognizable. The rectangular shape seemed definitely to show that a stairway was cut into the rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great...
Rowe and Greenless decided that the presence of the false stairway denoted the presence of a true entrance not far away. Brushes were applied to the rock nearby and every particle of dust and mud was removed. Nothing was found. Then knives were procured and the surface was scraped. Finally the efforts of the workers were rewarded, by the finding of a block of grey limestone set into the same kind of rock in the platform. The block was fitted so carefully that the edge of a razor could not enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after...
...from among the 11 men who wore Crimson jerseys on Saturday. Pratt perhaps was the most consistent player, and Zarakov showed the same brilliant stick handling that made him a terror to opponents of the 1927 Freshman team. Cumings especially towards the end of the game, remarkably resembled the rock of Gibralter and the allaround ability of the whole team, with combination play stressed, makes futile the featuring of any individual. Scott Hamlen, Pratt, and Zarakov were the Crimson's scorers, but in all but one instance teamwork figured in converting opportunities into goals...