Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...certain exhibits, included in the New Geological Exhibition Room, now in process of arrangement, and will attempt to make clear why the geological history of the earth is divided into various ages and periods, each of which is of untold duration. Photographic projections will present illustrations of various rock structures, from which the processes and conditions of past ages may be reasonably inferred, and the essentially simple nature of much of the evidence on which geological conclusions are based will be considered in some detail...
...early youth Mr. Smith was a clerk in an iron foundry. Later he obtained a mechanical education, and became an engineer and contractor. Under his direction were constructed the government sea wall around Governor's Island, a sea wall at Tompkinsville, S. I.; the Race Rock lighthouse off New London, and the foundation for the statue of Liberty, in the New York harbor. He has done much landscape water color painting, charcoal work and pen and ink illustrating, and has lectured extensively...
...give "A Rambling Talk" in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Mr. Smith is noted for his versatility; for besides being an author and artist of considerable merit, he has been engaged in engineering and contracting for about twenty years, and has built the Race Rock lighthouse on Long Island Sound and the Block Island breakwater...
...have a time trial, but took a harder row than on Monday. After paddling at an easy pace down stream to Longwood bridge the crew rowed to Harvard bridge in one stretch at a stroke of 30 and 34. Despite a cross wind tending to make the boat rock, the boat went more smoothly than yesterday, as the men showed evener form at the finish of the stroke and seemed to drive the boat without effort...
...closing Mr. Peak described the Yosemite Valley in California. The approach to the valley is covered with the great trees of California, many of which are over 400 feet high. El Capitaine Rock, two-thirds of a mile high and the largest single boulder in the world, is one of the notable sights of this picturesque valley...