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...little group crossed two backyards, trampled three flower beds and thus reached the coast of Swampscott. They proceded to a large red the rock. Then each individual began to hack away the rock with his hammer. The Leader picked up a small piece; "Silurian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." And the group wrote in their little black books. This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped...
...group went on. Finally, when they turned a bend in the coast, their pockets bulging with little rock specimens, they saw a group of maidens also with hammers hacking a big rock. The maidens were beautiful and came from Wellesley. They all looked very wise. When the maidens saw the young men approaching, they no longer looked wise but subtle. They disappeared among the big rocks...
...Little Rock a soldier safely back from seven weeks on maneuvers shot himself in the seat while handling a gun at a shooting gallery...
Little children should not believe all the long-accepted scientific "facts" that they are taught-hypotheses such as that coal was formed by subterranean heat and pressure when the flooded, lush, swampy forests were buried deep under crushing layers of sediment (which also turned to rock). This particular idea just isn't so, claims Fuel Technologist Walter Maxmilian Fuchs of Pennsylvania State College. The first step had to be taken by bacteria, for except near volcanoes there was never enough heat and pressure on the carboniferous vegetation to transform plants into coal...
...suggests, was that bacteria, in the underwater depths of the moldering swamps, drew the oxygen they needed from the decaying vegetation. It is this lack of oxygen which makes coal burn (i.e., oxidize) with two and a half times as much heat as wood. The weight of the rock formations later performs the secondary operation of packing the de-oxydized vegetation into coal...