Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Observation is a prime requisite of the broad-minded graduate, but it must also be a sort of observation that is of assistance through a microscope as well as from a mountain-top; in other words, a wide range of observation...
Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...
...story told in the three acts is that of a man who has led a shepherd's life in the mountains and has felt the call of a divine power, a power which has given him the gift of healing. He has come into the home of Matthew Beeler where the causes Mrs. Beeler to walk after she has been helpless for five years. Great crowds gather awaiting his coming and his help. But he has met Mrs. Beeler's niece, Rhoda Williams and has loved her. Through this love his purpose wavers, he doubts and he loses his power...