Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skull with microscope and calipers, classify her as a Mongoloid type, more Eskimo than Indian. Professor Jenks puts her age at 17½ years. From a nick on the inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces the "murder." It may have been caused by a spear or arrow striking through her heart, through her right lung. She may have been crossing the glacial lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps she was on a raft or in a canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck. From her waist...
...Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year -$25,000 each from four Insull utilities...
...shame of default weighed heavily on the grey head of Founder Long. When the suing bondholders labeled one of the company's moves to obtain bank loans as fraudulent, it was too much. In his wide-eyed old Fierce-Arrow touring car (1923 model) he hurried down to court. Wear- ing a worn suit and shapeless shoes, spry old Robert Long told his tale with a grim smile. For leading his organization into Northwest timber he showed no regret...
Under Studebaker, White will be run as a separate unit, just as are Fierce-Arrow and Rockne. Economies will be made by joint purchases of raw materials, by White's use of the big Studebaker sales organization. Studebaker's truck business, hitherto small, will probably be combined with White's. It is thought that the chief White executives will be retained. First among these is Ashton G. Bean who succeeded Mr. Woodruff as president two years ago. He is a forceful, hard-headed executive who has made automobile accessories, automatic telephones, phonograph motors and is still president of Bishop & Babcock...
...bellied folk were minding their daily affairs in their village on a source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over the large areas which communal dwellings...