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...bracelets we found, which in some instances have become cemented on the arm bone, are of Pacific clam shell, and were evidently traded in to the interior by coast tribes. Almost all of the jewelry, including several turquoise necklaces was found as part of burial trappings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bracelet Bedecked Arm Is Among Relics of New Mexico Aborigines Unearthed by Head of Peabody Museum Expedition | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...under the new plan proposed at Chicago it is hoped that at least the first and the third can be detected. The method to be used calls in the aid of the latest of the arts, the "movie". Studies have been made before of the "life of the clam" or the "insect world at work and play", why not of students? The camera will be set up in the study-halls for "close-ups" "slows" and careful analysis of the student mind at work. If a man is on the line, if he needs a C to stay in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILMING THE FAILURES | 2/7/1923 | See Source »

...compute percentages in any class election. As to the straw vote there is one consideration: a straw vote is an honest attempt to indicate public opinion. It is worth nothing if everybody does not john in. By not voting you are breaking no rule, but you are showing a clam-like indifference to an affair of interest to all, the success or failure of which lies in your hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTING | 10/19/1920 | See Source »

...know how Harvard feels on this subject; neither does Mr. Rice. Let us hear what Harvard has to say and not ask her to play the part of a clam. JOHN V. SPALDING...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Good Answer | 10/30/1919 | See Source »

...educational films are used now to cover various and sundry sins, Lampy suggests that their scope be limited and that they merely unfold the mysteries of the animal and vegetable kingdoms viz. the clam and the onion. The latest Pathos Weekly shows the uncomfortable adventures of a Harvard pacifist. In fact the movie number lacks nothing to make it a humorous encyclopedia of the new art. A glance through its pages will give anyone an amusing pass into the forbidden precincts of film land...

Author: By G. B. B. ., | Title: Lampy Lets Reader In On Some Intimate Movie Gossip | 3/9/1917 | See Source »

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