Word: slab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site where the shovels are now digging. He located in 1634 where later the Hick's house was to stand. On the other corner of the area, another more eminent man settled directly opposite Dudley's home, the site of which is marked by a polished granite slab on the corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon, and court representative. His quaint little house, though remodeled, was demolished only last autumn. Thomas Fisher...
...darkness of the park, on the bridge watching the black swirls of the grim river, still and stark on the slab in the white morgue--the caprice of nature lives and dies. Life in the well of loneliness. Radclyffe Hall beckons with a sympathetic smile, a book in her hand, for mankind to come to the aid of the lost. But contrary to her intentions, her humane gesture is greeted only with the crash of tea cups on polite floors, the sneers of the intellectuals, and the holy pronunciamentos of of the court of civil law. Despite the while...
...names of seven former professors in the Harvard Law School, who were eminent as well in the shaping of American legal tradition, have recently been carved on the marble slab which extends below the roof of the new Langdell Hall addition. The names on the West side are Story, Greenleaf, Parsons, and on the East side, Gray, Ames, Thayer, Smith. They were chosen by Dean Roscoe Pound for their contributions to legal education...
...unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case...
...exposition of "how an animal becomes a fossil, and how deceptive fossil-like forms may be produced". This is one of the most interesting parts of the exhibit as it shows the steps in the development of a fossil, the appearance of which is vividly pictured in the fossilized slab before mentioned. Among the invertebrates is a fossil shell of a mollusk, which is one of the largest in the world, being nine and a half feet in length. Only a part of this gigantic shell is present, the entire specimen is estimated at about 14 feet. This mollusk shell...