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...high cliff overlooking the Caribbean Sea are the ruins of the ancient city of Tuloom. This sky is seldom visited by scientists and it is reported that ruins of still older cities may be found behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ARCHAEOLOGIST TO EXPLORE IN YUCATAN | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...story of a couple of unhappy marriages. One of the wives and one of the husbands were in love but were impeded, chiefly through their own stupidity, from getting married. Therefore reels of unhappiness until the other wife rode a spritely horse and the other husband fell off a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...Nevada, Governor James Graves Scrugham reported having enlisted capital for continued excavations in "Pueblo Grande de Nevada," the pueblo cliff city eight miles long which he discovered personally last year and intends making into a state park. Some 50 of the 10,000 or more graves have been opened, containing corn, weapons, decorations and dice, dating (by estimate) to 5,000 B. C. Hard by the city is a turquoise mine. Some of the skeletons are gigantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...Leavitt '26 and D. D. Reynolds '27, students in the Department of Geology, found the tracks at Turner Fall, in the Connecticut Valley, near Amherst. They have now secured leave of absence for a week and are carrying on further research work at the base of Sunderland Cliff, also in the Connecticut River Valley near Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN DISCOVER NEW DINOSAUR TRACKS | 10/29/1925 | See Source »

...florid son-in-law took Rosamond and the professor's wife abroad; St. Peter escaped the jaunt with difficulty. He edited Outland s diary of the year in the cliff city, wrote a foreword and lay through long thoughtful evenings on his old box couch, covered with Tom's Navajo saddle-blanket. There was a high wind the night he had a cable from his returning wife, blew out the gas in the leaky heater. St. Peter smelled the room filling and wondered if he was obliged to save his life, now that it seemed so completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empty House* | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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