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...America and has made of it a ground upon which he creates an edifice compounded of the sufferings, victories and defeats of those early pioneers in the first days of industrialism in our country. This novel is the richly human story of a lone giant of the earth, George Rood, who wages a single-handed fight against a glass manufacturing enterprise which springs up across the road from his farm upon the discovery of natural gas in the vicinity...
...George Rood loses his wife in childbirth at the time of an explosion caused by the tapping of a gas well almost at his front gate. Embittered by this sad experience and alien to the despoiling methods of the new enterprise, he raises his son as a true child of the soil, mothered only by Mamie, a young servant girl, and Aunt Fanny, a woman already well on in years. "The man and this hebetic image of himself walked the straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial...
Tentative scatings announced yesterday by Mason Hammond '25, are: bow, M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31; 7, C. N. Comstock '07; 6, W. M. Marvel '30; 5, H. B. Rood '31; 4, Arthur Smithies 1G; 3, Hammond; 2, W. O. Faxon '32; stroke, S. D. Peirce 4E.S.; cox, M. T. Nichols '31, M. A. Matthews 2G.B., or Irving Neiman '29. T. C. T. Buckley '32, G. W. Menke 1G.B., and W. G. Botzow 2L are also on the Ancient Mariners' squad...
...publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked ability. . . . "Into the hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel that wreathed choir stalls, pulpit and rood screen, and the curving fronds of a few giant palms massed in the chancel, pointing the way to the altar where the snowy chalices of tall Easter lilies were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty with lovely light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride's youthfulness suddenly...
...Brother Eldon Farrar blows sweetly on a trombone. The everlasting blessedness of the saved. ... On the hard seats children fall asleep. A man bench," and a girl repenting sit their on "the sins. Later there would be more. And the everlasting, conscious punishment of the lost. Brother Paul William Rood, 43, pastor of Beulah Tabernacle. Turlock, Calif. pens a meeting. He is red-faced, friendly oratorical, shakes your hand warmly with is soft one. He has been president of the Fundamentalists for three years. His church is the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America, but he says: might...