Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year...
Several legends center about the dust bin. Several years ago students were somewhat amazed to find two small gin bottles near the surface. Further excavation revealed a curiously posed woman's skeleton ensconced in the midst of larger empty gin bottles...
...former director of an international school of Mexican archeology, has recently received than institute's entire collection. Attired in a white duster he is now actively engaged in Peabody sorting the shipment. None of the materials is to be exhibited but will be put aside for use in the dust...
...suddenly appeared at the head of his tribesmen, wrecked and raided the small railway station of Lassarat, seized rifles and munitions, but prudently faded into the mountains without tearing up the tracks. ¶ Day after day Italian aviators continued to drop bombs on Daggah Bur, a heap of dust that once was a mud village marking the northernmost point of Italy's advance on the South Front. The town was abandoned. Ethiopians insisted that a wounded chicken was the only casualty. ¶ Most graphic description of the reason for the stalling of Italy's advance came last week...
...presence at Harvard of truly brilliant men can lend intellectual vigor to all these who come into contact with them. No more now than ever does Harvard or any other University, we hope, have lasting use for the dried as dust pedant who can get along amiably enough with books but not at all with people or life in the world outside...