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...Petra, abandoned stone city of northern Arabia, a Bedouin started great excitement by happening to poke a certain boulder in a certain way and, later, telling what he had seen. The boulder had tilted, dropping him into a shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba...
...than the present Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...
...main, Saltacres is a study in novelists' materials. Reeds, rushes, weatherbeaten barns, pebbled beaches, a whitish sea, gulls and blackbirds gliding and skimming from foam-splashed boulder to knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements...
...offices, warehouses, golf clubs, courts, theatres, museums, station, lecture halls, factories, prisons and all the other structures required by 120 million U. S. people, is at present conducted by only 10,000 U. S. practitioners? one man to every chunk of population the size of Englewood, N. J., or Boulder, Col., or Tuscaloosa...
...What river would be affected by the federal Boulder Dam project...