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...Atlantic coast, notably in the Delaware valley, have been found the oldest relics of the paleolithic period. These are rude stone implements used for knives, hatchets, etc. There is a marked similarity between some of these implements and those belonging to the same period found in Europe...
...clock. Instead of obtaining entrance by the south door, as students are especially directed in the official college calendar, the crowd of outsiders prevented our getting even to the chapel steps. Perhaps the ushers could not prevent. Cambridge people from crowding into the reserved seats. If so, the rude outsiders should be excluded altogether. Part of our tuition goes to pay for the religious privileges of the University, so that we have a right, not merely to beg, but to demand accommodations at any time we wish them. The times when we all particularly wish to go are just those...
...Rolland. They were, in a broad sense, historians, and their narratives have an air of truth that makes them seem real and alive. They always followed the line of thought closely; they were clear and precise; they thought of what they spoke, and not of how they spoke, Stern, rude, and unadorned their poetry was, but certainly it had vitality, significance, and grandeur...
...jaws of which were the well polished teeth. The skeletons were those of men averaging 5 feet 2 inches in height, the tallest being 6 feet 2 inches. The burials were from three to five feet below the surface. The skeletons rested upon hard clay. Around them had been rudely set up flat river stones, then earth had been filled in, and over all broad, flat stones placed. In this rude incitement their bodies have reposed for centuries. There are evidences that the men had died in conflict. About the neck of one of the child skeletons was found...
...Lynch law is justifiable only in a rude and uncivilized state of society.- [a] Presupposes corrupt or weak courts; e g Vehmgericht: Kohlrausch, History of Germany, 278-285.- [b] Is an evidence of a tendency to anarchy.- [c] Leads the community to neglect its regular system of laws and justice.- [d] The evil in the Louisiana courts must be attacked from within; the mob has not settled the matter permanently: Nation, March...