Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other miners nicknamed him "the Evangelist." But faith and sobriety made Agustín a more diligent prospector. Early this year, panning in the remote Paragua River, he found an egg-size black stone "that shone like a diamond." Agustín thankfully put it in his pocket and paddled away. But joy soon changed to anxiety. For some of the miners who saw the stone said it was a rare gem worth $600,000 or more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agust...
Last week Agustín finally turned the stone over to a government geologist in Ciudad Bolivar. The expert weighed and measured, tested and probed. At length he announced that the Evangelist was 698 carats-of almost pure iron...
...Ebenezer F. Bowditch, Jr.; Peter Buffington; Thomas C. Cochran, Jr.; Malcolm F. Davis; Edmond R. DuPont; David Falk; Cyrus Hamlin; David T. Harper, Jr.; Ronald P. Mischner (captain); Duane J. Murner; Avery D. Pratt, Jr.; George H. Shaprie; Alan D. Slotkin; Michael B. Smith; Alton L. Steiner; Gregory B. Stone; Griffith J. Winthrop; Stuart G. McCornack (manager...
...Talking Boards. Another learned German attacked another mystery, the strange written language of Easter Island, in the South Pacific. The island's most famous feature is its great stone statues, of unknown workmanship, that stare out to sea with thin-lipped scorn, but scholars are even more fascinated by the "talking boards": pieces of wood carved with close-packed characters...
...concerns lyrics. I first noticed the trend toward obscurity a number of years ago when Frank Sinatra sand a lyric of which the third verse consisted entirely of "ali-dabi doopy da pha. Oh! fee dee de bah bippidy Oh!" The song, as I remember, was called "An Old Stone House," which seemed to offer no satisfactory clue to the interpretation of the lyric. Although my work and ultimate understanding of this verse makes a fascinating story, I would rather take a contemporary and somewhat easier example...