Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of the third act is Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, in the spring of the present year. Professor Hasafad is explaining to his class of students the theory he holds in regard to a large rock at the base of the Leif Ericsson statue. He has obtained permission to blow it open in order that his theory may be tested. He lights the fuse and the geological party retires to a safe distance. The rock splits open and Leif and Turker step forth. Hasafad runs up and recognizes Leif Ericsson. He is elated over his discovery, although Professor Struse denies...
...frequent slides of rock and rubbish are unmistakable signs of the slow wearing process, which often trims sharp peaks into regular slopes. Glaciers which are characteristic of these lofty mountains, wear broad basins in valleys, forcing aside mountain spurs which they cannot go around. The Alaskan glaciers show how ice-fields may enter the sea, carrying down masses of debris and rounding off rock formations in the descent. Sometimes subdued, are depressed and buried in the sea, often to a great depth...
...yielding that is Sin, and not the temptation to which we yield. But no matter what the difficulty or temptation; there is always a hand to help us, a rock on which we may get support. This is found in Jesus Christ. The deep power and significance of His personality is that He puts Himself along with men in their doubt and scepticism, feeling for their weaknesses and sins and sympathizing as one who had himself been tempted. It is He who knows us. He is here to liberate no matter what our burdens. He comes to transform the life...
...business companies or by the Arab traders. The country has been the scene of some of the greatest events and periods of the world's history, and traces and records of these periods, now being obliterated, could be brought to light by careful scientific search. Caverns hewn in the rock and various stone implements of a prehistoric age have been discovered, and relics are often found of the period of the rule over Palestine of the Babylonians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Philistines, the Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, and the Turks...
...first prize has been awarded to Monroe Buckley, 1L., for ten pictures mostly of mountain scenery. Numbers 24, "East Rock, New Haven;" 25, "The Franconia Notch;" 26, "Sunset on Mt. Lafayette;" and 28, 29 and 30, of Mt. Osceola and the Waterville Valley, are deserving of mention. The last two show striking cloud-shadow effects. Second prize is given to H. H. Ruston, 1G. His principal picture, "Morning," number 157, is an artistic view of a hillside pasture, with clumps of hard wood trees, and a hazy distance. "A Barnyard Study," number 154, and "Sheep" and "Firelight Study," numbers...