Word: stratum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stratum about the Fijis is generally limestone and the height at which the coral formation begins, generally about forty feet below the surface, may have been reached by a gradual upward growth of the substratum, as well as by subsidence from a higher altitude. In either case the present theory is that it is an independent growth. However, more than anything else the results of my trip have been to make me realize that the whole theory of coral formation is still very uncertain. A few interesting discoveries about the Fijis have shown that the very old theory that atolls...
...plans and photographs Professor Dorpfeld sought, with marked success, to give his hearers a picture of the results of the excavations. Nine strata had been found one over the other, marking the site of nine different settlements, each of which in its turn had been destroyed. In the upper stratum Roman buildings were uncovered, including a stately temple of Athena built of marble, and three theatres, and many colonnades and houses. Countless marble inscriptions record that this city was called Ilion, and that some of its buildings were erected by the Roman emperors. Under these Roman buildings, as the excavations...
...extremely ancient and primitive look. Of these five a srata Professor Dorpfeld described one, the second from the bottom, at length, regrading this to be of special importance. This also was a citadel with great walls and towers; Schliemann believed it to be the citadel of Priam. I this stratum he found the celebrated articles of gold which he denominated the "Treasure of Priam." This citadel, however, is certainly earlier than the time of the Trojan war. In viewing it one involuntarily recalls, as Professor Dorpfeld suggested, the tradition preserved in Homer that ancient Troy had one before been destroyed...
...methods of the Salvation Army are the only ones that reach the classes of people among whom they chiefly work.- (a) Other methods, as of charitable societies public and private fail to reach this lowest stratum.- (1) They are regulative rather than preventive.- (x) They relieve suffering rather than remove the causes.- (b) The soldier alone is willing to tackle the evil in the places of its origin.- (c) The Army methods alone seem able to stir up the most hardened to better lives.- (1) Such people can be roused only by strong appeals to their emotions, such...
...made he put the yeast which caused it to rise. In this way he took the old Chronicles which existed before his time, and by varying adherence to them and departure from them developed his famous plays. He adhered to the Chronicles in so far as there is a stratum of historical fact in all of the dramas of which we are speaking; he departed from them by the addition of characters and scenes of his own invention, which in some cases almost obscure the facts which underlie them...