Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attracted by pottery fragments to a low mound with the native name of M'lefaat, the diggers found relatively recent remains in the upper layers of dirt. Farther down they found something entirely different: filled-in pit houses rather like those that American Indians were building about the time of Columbus. Some of the houses had circular walls of mortarless stone and floors covered with hardpacked pebbles. Inside were crude hearths...
...Braidwood is not sure whether the pit-house dwellers were truly agricultural. Their mortars proved that they ground some sort of grain, but they may have collected wild seeds instead of planting crops. He hopes to have some sort of answer to this question after the dirt of M'lefaat has been sifted for fragments of grain and other meaningful trifles. Even without this evidence, it looks as if M'lefaat may be one of man's earliest attempts to live in a permanent community...
...closing stages, Detroit's Layne passed constantly and desperately, but Detroit could not score again. At last glacial Paul Brown had made it big. He had won his first "world championship"; he had wiped out the Lions' hex, and wiped the Lions' faces in the dirt. Not even reports of Otto Graham's retirement could spoil Coach Brown...
Many people have told me what to do-afterward . . . But I was there then and [they were not] . . . Mud and other dirt was thrown at us, and I felt like whipping a lot of people, but I couldn't get to them...
Pool Cleaner. To clean the bottom of a swimming pool without draining it, Poolmaster, Inc., of Burlingame, Calif., has developed a 4½-lb. vacuum cleaner on a 15-ft. handle. The machine uses water pressure from a garden hose to suck the pool dirt into a large detachable orlon bag. Price...