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...times the public frequently treat authors as kings do their courtiers; they enrich and despise them ..." Few American authors are despised these days; few are very rich. They reflect the 20th century's leveling forces: economically-as well as literarily-most of them inhabit a great, grey middle stratum...
...eventually into man. They may know more soon. In the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, an Indian Service agent found an outcrop of fossil-bearing rock. Driving down from Denver to investigate, Government Geologist G. Edward Lewis found that the fossils were in the Kayenta Formation, a rock stratum that runs through Navajo country for hundreds of miles. For fossil fanciers this was big news: in the Kayenta Formation fossils are almost unknown...
Volcanic action is not the only solution. Sometimes the hot blister merely keeps on growing slowly without breaking out. When it reaches a new stratum, it "cooks" the rock, driving out the water contained in its crystals. Soluble materials are dissolved in the water. When the water moves, through cracks or other outlets, the minerals in it are deposited, sometimes as valuable ores...
...five months Italy's Montesi case smoldered beneath the surface like a bog fire. Last week it burst into flame. The government was scorched, the Foreign Minister was forced to resign, and one whole stratum of Italian society was illuminated in garish light...
...site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal bones had come from a stratum of grey sand that lay considerably below the reddish sand containing the Folsom points...