Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year in Arizona, a scientific expedition found some remarkable rock pictures, supposedly made by prehistoric man. The most interesting picture, scientifically, is one that resembles an ibex, an antelope like creature which hitherto has not been found in this country, even in fossil form...
...Rock pictures and early inscriptions are known to be present in many places of the United States. Always they have been ascribed to the Indians of comparatively modern times, and rightly so Dr. Free thinks, in the majority of cases. Some of them, however, Dr. Free believes to go back into prehistoric times, and to be archeologically very important. Just as the paintings in gorges and caves in Spain and France were long neglected, Dr. Free thinks that similar historic assets perhaps are now being wasted in the United States...
...things which are temporal. But we shall also be made aware of the still small voice arising from the fireside of every devoted home in the land seeking the things which are eternal. To such a country, to such a cause, the American Legion has dedicated itself. Upon this rock you stand for the service of humanity. Against it no power can prevail...
...been my privilege as a geologist to read the records in the rocks; knowing the ages of the rocks has led to better knowledge of the Rock of Ages; I have watched the procession of life on the long road from the one-celled but of primitive protoplasm to the present assemblage of varied creatures including...
...less attention by the Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present, the boy was at one with the fine dead race that had set its city on a lofty rock-shelf of a box canyon. In later years, the time of this book, after Tom had died in France, St. Peter found that memories of the mesa filled the depths of his nature with a sacred finality...