Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State. Henry Lewis Stimson of New York, began crossing water at the behest of Presidents 23 years ago in Rock Creek Park, Washington. There he was riding on the bridle path one drizzly afternoon when he heard his name imperiously called from across the creek. The caller was Mr. Stimson's Manhattan law chief, Elihu Root, then Secretary of State. out for an airing with President Roosevelt. Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A. N. Y. National Guard, spurred his horse over the swollen stream, nearly foundered in the middle, clambered up the slippery bank opposite, gave...
...following week the Club is to make a canoe trip on Miller's River to Athol, while several rock climbs are to take place between now and the end of the winter...
...seemed as though history was being overdramatic. The skies were fulgurant. Detonations of thunder echoed hollowly and mysteriously through the corridors of St. Peter's. The question of infallibility was put to the Council and 535 voted placet; 2 voted non placet. The dissenters were the Bishop of Little Rock, Ark., and the Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica (where the first Napoleon was born). The question was put again and 537 voted placet...
...body of sulphide ore, for example, generally has higher electrical conductivity than the surrounding rock. If an electric current is passed through the ground, the flow of electricity will tend to concentrate in the material which offers least resistance to its passage, and valuable evidence concerning the relative conductivity of the rocks that comprise the area can be gained by observing with suitable devices the distribution of current. A convergence of flow lines into a good conductor can be readily detected, and even the effects of better conducting material at considerable depth can often be estimated with a fair degree...
...most delicate measurements made by the new methods is in the investigation of irregularities in the gravitational field of the earth by means of the torsion balance. Masses of density different from the surrounding rock, tend to deflect the direction of gravity and the change, though almost infinitesimal, from the standpoint of ordinary human experience, is capable of measurement by observing the amount of rotation of a light beam appropriately weighted and suspended on a thin platinum wire. Ore bodies themselves are rarely large enough to cause detectable variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores...