Word: cave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second place, you omitted all mention of Mr. Cammerer's splendid work for the proposed Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, which, when established, will give to the nation underground features equally as "naturally wonderful" as those mentioned in your article...
...found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where Luer was kept...
Died. Kenneth McKenzie, 22, University of Southern California javelin thrower; of freezing and crushing when he, exploring an ice cave with his fiancée, her mother and sister, was caught in a fall of snow & ice from the roof; in Sequoia National Forest, Calif...
...second expedition will be in charge of D. S. Byers '25. It will excavate the ruins in a great cave on the Chinle valley near the Utah-Arizona line, formerly called Waterfall Ruin. The cave is thought to contain rubbish and ruins of cultures paralleling those that are represented by the Alkali Ridge sites. It is hoped that the results of the work will clarify the problem presented by the Ridge, and throw further light on some of the earlier cultures of the region, since the dry rubbish is known to contain perishable material not preserved in open sites...
Exhaling cigaret smoke through his nose, a slight man, tough as raffia, brown as leather, leaned over a collapsible campstool tugging at the laces of his chamois slippers. Into the concrete cave of his dressing-room crept the sound of remote applause. A distant rain of handclapping drifted in, and many smells-a realistic mixture of axle-graphite, new timber, horse sweat, ropes, giraffe dung. His laces pulled and fastened, the wiry little man stood up and flexed his fingers, appraised their steely strength. A buzzer sounded from behind a dented locker, a girl's voice called out with...