Word: burials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summers he repaired to an old fashioned cottage on the oceanward end of Long Island, at East Hampton, lingering there till autumn fogs moved through the scrub-oak and laurels and the wind blew cold over bright dunes. This year he went late to East Hampton, for burial...
...plans, he alone could say. How long before the most provincial Americano will be thoroughly conscious of Winston-Salem's place in the sun, is also a matter of conjecture. But with a Gannett paper in town, Winston-Salem's light is in no danger of bushel-burial, despite a curious feature of that town which any friend of Mr. Gannett's would not fail to remark should he accompany the publisher down there some day to look things over...
...Florida, a 35-ft. idol with Mongolian features, carved from "wood eternal" (sea mangrove), was found near a burial mound whose occupants lived, guessed scientists, 2,000 years...
...Washington, Professor Olaf Opsjon of Spokane probed and puzzled over ideographs found hidden beneath moss and lichen on a lava boulder near a burial mound. Other archaeologists awaited Professor Opsjon's reasons for believing that the runes were the work of a band of Norsemen in 1010 A. D., including 24 men, 7 women and a baby, who recorded their defeat by Indians during a Norse exploration hitherto unsuspected by latterday historians...
Grim with her phantom cargo of 24 decayed sailors' bodies, unredeemed since last September, the S-51 freighted them to decent Christian burial in respectable cemeteries. Fortnight ago the Navy failed in a big attempt to raise the sunken casket because of heavy seas arising (TIME, July 5), swore it would succeed next time...