Word: stones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...
There, too, it was a kind of harvest time: the 35 Benedictine monks of Monte Cassino were rebuilding the Abbey stone by stone, with their hands. One of them, round little Dom Oderisco Graziosi, looked about him. "It takes an olive tree 30 years to bear fruit . . . For us it will be decades, perhaps centuries. But that day will come...
Electric Trigger. The problem of getting oil out of its protective sand-and-stone armor is as old as the first well. For years oilmen used dynamite, and topped the charge with water. No better method was found until two Los Angeles oil-machinery salesmen, Wilfred G. Lane and Walter T. Wells, tackled the problem in 1932. In a few months they developed their perforator gun, which can fire as many as 128 bullets in any desired direction. Its force is great enough to pierce five layers of steel casing and concrete, make enough fissures in the surrounding strata...
...Crude to our ears, perhaps. A Stone-Age implement. But beautifully accurate gamesmanship for 1931 ... Smith (at Point K) stopped dead...