Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock...
...Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...formulas and cold logic. Human life is only partially rational. And by considering it wholly so, much of our education has become so much fact and circumstances dumped out of the dusty confines of some pedant's notebook and abandoned by him like so many blasted stumps on a sand-dune, completely severed from life and all things living. We are just awakening to the fact that by neglecting the imaginative and spiritual side of life, much of our education has reached an advanced stage...
Essentially, this stuff is colloidal silica possessing immense absorbent qualities. It looks like coarse sand, but has pores so fine no microscope can detect them. In refining petroleum, it removes the sulphur-bearing constituents and gum-forming compounds. But, most remarkable, silica gel makes ice with the help of heat...
...removal of the sand will give the Sphinx a much grander appearance...