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...Story. The Marches' position in the Middle-Western metropolis of St. Pierre was assured ? weren't they the children and grandchildren of old Andrew March who had always saved his pennies and whose name was still a byword for the good old rock-bound kind of success? And Bradford and Penelope March were advance for their day ? they let their children call them by their first names and believed in their being healthy and, as far as possible, free. But Janet, their daughter, was an absolutely modern model with the latest streamline attachments, self-starter...
...Thou hast said once: ' I am with him who is alone. Move the rock and ye will find me, kindle the wood and I am there.' But to find Thee in stone and wood means the will to seek Thee, the capacity to see Thee. And today most men neither want nor know how to find Thee...
...quarry suitable for research and last summer an additional contribution enabled Professor Charles Palache to obtain quarry rights on a large ledge of granite in Greenwood Maine. K. K. Landis 3G, started work early in the summer with two miners and blasted hundreds of tons of rock all of which had to be examined and if interesting a small specimen had to be saved for experimentation in the laboratories in the University Museum...
...course of the blasting the miners had to run many risks and had many narrow escapes from flying rock. Two and a half kegs of black-powder were used and from 40 to 50 tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block...
...Pullman (sleeping cars). McKinley offered to make him Assistant Postmaster General but he declined. He lost the Gubernatorial nomination in 1904. Three years later he was elected to Congress and served for about five years. In the Republican split of 1912 he stood by Taft, but not in the rock-ribbed Republican group. His stand was such that in 1916 Roosevelt called upon him "'to assume a position of leadership " and to help align the Republican and Progressive forces. That year he was elected Governor and made a creditable record in office, reorganizing the executive department of the state from...