Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian Legislature, bought the famed 200,000-acre Hay Creek sheep and cattle ranch east of the Cascades near the village of Madras, 150 miles southeast of Portland...
...boom year in fossil anthropology. A quarry blast in South Africa turned up an adult skull of the same genus as the immature fossil Australopithecus found in 1924. A brain case discovered in England appeared to be older than Piltdown Man. A cranial piece dug out of a California creek, though probably not much more than 30,000 years old, looked like the oldest human relic ever found in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Few weeks ago from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging to Pekin Man first came...
...prospectors into that dismal region have followed ever since. On Christmas Day, 1849, a party of emigrants in 27 wagons known as the Sand-Walking Company, lost while trying to find a short cut from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino, Calif., entered the Valley by way of Furnace Creek and never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers, who split off to save themselves when the train bogged down, turned aside to locate what became known as the Lost...
...Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have to wait. He found time, however, to dedicate a stone bench in Rock Creek Park as a memorial to late French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand, to make a radio speech opening Community Chest drives throughout the U. S., to make another in favor of peace on the occasion of the sailing of Secretary of State Hull and the U. S. delegation for the conference...
...likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman with a long, narrow head. Dr. Bowden stated that the skull could not possibly be an "intrusion" since...