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Word: baskets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosgrove, associate in anthropology, and Mrs. Cosgrove will travel to southwestern New Mexico where they will carry on their work in the gila National Forest. There they will make a careful reconnaissance of the existing remains of the Basket Makers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY MUSEUM PLANS NEW WORK | 5/8/1928 | See Source »

...Basket Makers are the earliest inhabitants of the Southwest of whom archeologists have any exact knowledge. They date back from 3,000 to 10,000 years. Their material culture differed considerably from that of later Indians. The chief interest of these Basket Makers for modern science lies in the fact that they were probably the first people in the United States to practice systematized agriculture. They cultivated a very primitive variety of corn from which it is believed maize is derived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY MUSEUM PLANS NEW WORK | 5/8/1928 | See Source »

Until the recent National High School Basket Ball Tournament at Chicago, I would have answered both of the above in the positive. But now I am inclined to believe negatively-How on earth could the conductor of your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...think it would be a "good stunt" for TIME to publish the line-up of the All American High School Basket Ball Team for 1928. Here you will again find Ashland, Kentucky, well represented, with Ellis Johnson who is called the "greatest high school basket ball general" being the unanimously elected captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

When John William Davis, technical present-day head of the Democratic Party by virtue of his 1924 nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Goff | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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