Word: schist
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...What do brown, light orange, magenta make?" the teacher will ask. "Pot!" cry the kids. Dr. William Jordan, assistant head of the elementary schools, says: "We have never seen such progress. Our color readers are far ahead of any comparable groups." Students conquer the course, through such words as schist and hallelujah, in six weeks to six months...
Abandoning their tea, the prospectors followed Chiwaro to the place where he had found the rock. They worked carefully up the slope, pushing the veld grass gently aside with their hands, until they struck an outcrop of pegmatite and schist. It was the end of their search. Embedded in the soft, weather-beaten rock were emerald clusters, green and unmistakable...
...underground,* the explorers felt the intoxicating glow of knowing that "neither paleolithic men, nor the pot-holers of today, had ever been here before us." Having gained the heart of the mountain from the top, they stood triumphant upon its base-a monumental mass of carboniferous schist. It was a moment speleologists dream about...
Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
...garnets from Bear Hill will never grace the tiaras of dowagers ?for the stones are cloudy and flawed?but they are excellent for Mr. Ford's purposes. There is a seam of mica schist outcropping on Bear Hill with the garnets set so thickly in it, that in parts they compose 85% of the whole by weight, and the seam is expected to average 60%. Mr. Ford's engineers are still exploring the deposit, drilling holes into the hard garnets which blunt the steel drills used, with astonishing rapidity. In addition the outcropping is being blasted and carried away...