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...things which are temporal. But we shall also be made aware of the still small voice arising from the fireside of every devoted home in the land seeking the things which are eternal. To such a country, to such a cause, the American Legion has dedicated itself. Upon this rock you stand for the service of humanity. Against it no power can prevail...
...been my privilege as a geologist to read the records in the rocks; knowing the ages of the rocks has led to better knowledge of the Rock of Ages; I have watched the procession of life on the long road from the one-celled but of primitive protoplasm to the present assemblage of varied creatures including...
...less attention by the Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present, the boy was at one with the fine dead race that had set its city on a lofty rock-shelf of a box canyon. In later years, the time of this book, after Tom had died in France, St. Peter found that memories of the mesa filled the depths of his nature with a sacred finality...
...latest experiment-for it is still such-in rail transportation under gasoline power will be tried on the Rock Island, on whose rails Mack Truck will soon place the "Mack Rail Car." This new engine has resulted from three years' study of the problem; it is practically regular railway equipment, and can be coupled into two, three-or four-car trains with 90 horse power motors on each truck...
There they are crushed into tiny fragments, and separated from other rock on inclined vibrating tables.* Then they are used for polishing the glass that goes to make windshields and windows...