Word: sands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason Solomon's port remained so long hidden is that it is a half-mile inland from the present coast. The prevailing winds from the north carry heavy burdens of sand, which have built up the shore and extended it slowly southward into...
Last week Mrs. Esther Shephard (Paul Bunyan) advanced a new theory to account for Whitman's change. She says that he read George Sand's The Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction...
...searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
...Somatology indicates that the man was probably 40 years old when he died. Kidder explained that it was the custom in those days to keep the mummy lying around for as long as four years before he was finally buried in a hole in the ground, covered with sand...
...wooden scaffold, a bag of sand, a black mask and a short length of rope with a running noose might have been good enough for our grandfathers. But a hanging is no longer the fashionable thing it was once; a few U. S. States- Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, North Carolina and California- even kill their murderers with gas instead of electricity. Five of the country's lethal chambers have been made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, which has a ghastly set of patents. Last week the fifth was sent off to San Quentin prison...