Word: cliffe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course America has no pyramids or Swiss Chalets; but the villages of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park have been found quite as interesting, while the great ranges about Mount Rainer are thought to compare favorably with the Swiss Alps. As for the animal life in the Yellowstone, the majestic pageant of the Grand Canyon, the giant groves in the Sequoia, Europe can nowhere offer parallels. The Harvard trip, in touring this western country, will not only give its explorers a suggestion of the extent and resources of their country but prove to them that Americans...
Sarazen meanwhile has finished his labor in the land of celluloid and returned to open the spring season at the Briar cliff Lodge Club (Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.), where he is employed as professional at a salary reputed to be larger than that of most of the members...
...time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that she must have fallen over some cliff and been drowned in one of the fast tidal currents that abound there...
...Friday, Dr. A. V. Kidder '08, curator of Southwestern Archaeology, will take as his subject "Basic Civilizations in the Southwest", describing the coming of agriculture into the Southwest and tracing the life, art, and design of the basket-makers and cliff-dwellers. On May 5, Dr. Charles Peabody '90, curator of European archaeology, will speak on "Art Prehistoric and Primitive", telling of the remarkable art of upper Paleolithic times in southern France and comparing these early efforts with the drawings of children. On May 12, Dr. H. J. Spinden '06, curator of Mexican Archaeology, will lecture on "Maya...
...business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...