Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Passing from the dangerous, rock-bound coast to the plains of the interior, the tourist comes upon the great nitrate beds, which furnish the chief income to this otherwise unproductive country. The export of nitrate is enormous and was the chief cause of the late Chili-Peruvian...
...additions to the museum during the past year have been two bronze battle-axes from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...wall which seems to be certainly Hebrew, but owing to the great depth of the debris and the late date of the discovery it was not possible to dig out any considerable portion of this wall the present year. At several points on the summit the clearings reached the rock, but at no point did such clearing cover more than a few square feet. The city wall is over two and a quarter miles in circuit, and it is confidently hoped that the search for Hebrew buildings will be rewarded...
...McClure, D.D., LL.D., President of the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, will preach at the eighth vesper service of the year, to be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The musical program is an follows: "The Lard is my rock." Woodman; aria from "Elijah," Mendelssohn; "Here Discovered our Foundations," Grieg. Mr. Ralph Osborne will be the soloist. Front seats on the floor will be reserved until 4.55 o'clock for members of the University and their friends...
...Smith was educated as a mechanical engineer. He built the Race Rock lighthouse off New London and laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He is also well known as an artist and an author. His landscape work in water-colors and charcoal have been awarded medals at several expositions and by many art societies. Mr. Smith has written some delightful short stories, the best known of which are "The Under Dog," "The Wood Fire in No. 3" and "Colonel Carter of Cartersville...