Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president who led the National Guard to break up the General Strike when Miss Perkins dallied. Mr. Hoover slipped into his gown just before the procession puffed through a fringe of eucalyptus trees. Alumni fixed cushions on the Theater's stone tiers, then hushed as the procession ended. On the stage professors shielded their eyes against a blazing sun. A Catholic priest was delivering an invocation. President Sproul was booming out his thanks to the kind souls who gave his pub lic university a half million private dollars last year...
...route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered in 1848; Zachary Taylor, 12th President; Inventor Lewis Edson Waterman (fountain...
...Kansas has been "meteorite-conscious" for nearly half a century. In 1885 a farmer named Kimberly and his wife moved to a farm in Kiowa County. They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens. Mrs. Kimberly, who in childhood had been shown a meteorite by a teacher, told her husband what the black stones were. He snorted. Despite his gibes and those of the neighborhood, Mrs. Kimberly started collecting the meteorites. For five years she wrote to scientists, met discouraging skepticism. Finally an optimistic savant arrived, examined...
...Aerolite: a meteorite composed chiefly of stone...
...gruesome figures have for artists, even though he may not be able to comprehend the technical skill, the shrewd relation of form to material that these savage artists used. Their work was not idly decorative but deeply purposeful. They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe. Fear of angry gods and strong enemies was their dominant emotion as they fashioned their fetishes to win divine favor and victory on the battlefield. Wrote famed Critic Sheldon Cheney of this African...