Word: sand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement of automobile parts and materials, as well as of cement, clay, gravel, sand, has increased...
Arrangements have been completed with the Sand Hill Polo Club of Pine hurst, N. C., to have the University polo team practice there during the Easte recess. The playing will consist mostly of unofficial games with members of the Sand Hill and other clubs, which should do much to develop effective team-work for the intercollegiate hate meet...
...which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust which the analyst designated as Cantabrigian...
...immense weights, one of 1000 pounds for the works, the other of 1500 pounds to strike the gong, fall 80 feet a week to keep the clock going. It is Mr. Walford's duty to lift them up again. Two boxes of sand at the end of steel cables constitute these weights...
...lost their lives. The ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under water and littered with wreckage, engine rooms obstructed with wreckage and filled two feet deep with sand and coral, the starboard side crushed, one funnel, topmast and all top hamper down or overboard...