Word: sand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high noon today, a hastily organized squash team composed of managers of University sports, will at tempt to put sand, in the smoothly running wheels of the CRIMSON racquet squad. The scribes, after subduing the fast moving H. A. A. Aggregation on the courts last Tuesday, are confident of taming the towel tossers in today's encounter...
Leaving Rock Creek, we turned north, climbing 1,000 feet by many of Mt. Guyot, and came to a gap at steep zig zags and skirting the east base 11,000 feet. Then, passing over flat areas covered with granite sand and huge pine, we came down to Crabtree Meadows, on the creek of the same name...
There is a trail of a sort, or rather a choice of many trails, meandering over the low ledges, boulders, and sand of the chimney; it is strenuous climbing in places, but perfectly safe, and one finally emerges on the gentler and smoother upper crest and soon joins a better trail coming from Lone Pine, north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb...
...Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...
...piercing cries of the population groping in the dark added the element of agony to the scene. Great fissures appeared in the fields, discharging water, sand and silt...