Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twisters, it furrowed an almost machine-straight path two to four blocks wide through the heart of the city and into the northeastern suburbs. Houses were blown into rubble, cars blasted into junk. All but one of the 18 major buildings at Washburn University, several of them with heavy stone walls, were destroyed or seriously damaged...
...gotten just one picture." In one batch of shots, scientists found some that further emphasized Surveyor's charmed life. About 300 yds. from the craft, the camera picked out a field of boulders up to six feet in diameter. Had the spacecraft landed there, striking any stone at a bad angle, it might have toppled over. Said U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker: "I think we were damn lucky...
Fossils & the Stone Age Man. The diagnostic term, osteoarthritis, is merely a modern and less accurate name for the degenerative joint disease that can be recognized in fossils of reptiles that died 100 million years ago and in the remains of Stone Age man. In ancient Egypt, the disease was no more a respecter of Pharaohs than it is of Presidents today. The Greeks supplied one name, arthritis (from arthron, joint, and itis, inflammation), but most victims of so-called arthritic conditions, like Ike, have little or no inflammation. More recent and precise terms are arthrosis and osteoarthrosis. Medieval physicians...
...Those Who Love, Stone...
...Delights. Unquestionably, the plaza's most immediate triumph is its playground. Architect Simon Breines, who grew up playing stickball on the streets of Brooklyn, provided Riis Plaza children with a stupendous place to play. With Landscape Architect Paul Friedberg, he designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...