Word: sands
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...through it. The most characteristic features of the views are the very numerous glacial ponds, the narrow, open valleys, the small rock-broken hills and the broad level salt marshes. Beautiful views are to be obtained along the coast at all seasons of the year. No better illustration of sand beach with its rollers can be found than Revere Beach, easily accessible by the narrow gauge railway from Boston. Here in winter, after storms the scenes are very impressive, the snow being banked up by the waves sometimes to the height of fifteen feet...
Coming to the immediate environment of Cambridge we find natural features in the geologic formations that have influenced seriously the lives of men in this region since the earliest settlements. The deposits of boulders so common about here drove the pioneers to their towns on barren sand plains instead of on the fertile but stubborn hills and valleys. The slow, persevering labor necessary to reclaim the present farm land from boulders and forests has had an almost inestimable effect on the characters of the New Englanders...
...stove, which is very old, is made of terra cotta glazed with gum, and is probably the only one of its kind in this country. When in use, it was set on a bed of sand, on the deck of a canoe, and then heated for cooking purposes. The exact method employed has not yet been determined, for the stove was broken in transportation, and the pieces have not yet been fitted together...
...field of battle. On the whole the short story offers greater opportunities for a young writer than the novel. In the short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens and Thackeray not only stated problems, but also answered them. The modern method of the short story, however, is to treat the matter in such an ambiguous manner, that two opposing answers may be possible. Again, a short story writer always asks his readers to take a great deal for granted...
Saturday was given to excursions in charge of Dr. Gregory. The morning was spent in examining West Rock, where the party found splendid exposures of the intrusive contact of a huge lava sheet with the Triasaic sand-stones. In the afternoon the party, including Professors Williams, Beecher and Pearson of Yale, took the train to Meriden, passing the escarpment of the hanging hills on the way, and going on to the large quarries in the lava beds north of the city. From there the party went along the great fault line where the displacement measures about 2,000 feet...