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When Sculptor Gutzon Borglum quarreled with the committee in charge of the Memorial which is being cut into the front of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Mar. 2 et seq.) and Augustus Lukeman was appointed in his place, many people thought that the long squabble had been buried at last with the Confederate dead which the Memorial is to commemorate. True, there were those who suggested that Sculptor Lukeman was better fitted to carve epitaphs on tombs and chisel dates on cornerstones than to model soldiers, but such people were laughed down...
...follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they may be and nearly always driven back to the flat prairie, the land...
...Palestine, Professor James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago laid the plans for exploring Armageddon, battlefield of humanity described in the Apocalypse. The site is a mounded plain on a mountain shelf overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon, near Mount Carmel. Funds were furnished by John D. Rockefeller...
...body opposes to a force acting upon it.' According to this definition, I have experienced no reactions to my reception at Harvard, for I certainly have not offered any opposition to the great Crimson force which has swept me along in its wide current, just as the turbulent mountain torrent whirls the tender sapling which has fallen into its power along the precipitous and oft-times fatal course...
...snowy passes in Kashmir and Thian Shan, losing ponies and porters, and living off the land with their trusty rifles as they dashed back into the Pamirs after one fruitless visit, their vicissitudes were followed as though they had been hunting the north pole instead of a species of mountain sheep unknown to our museums...