Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eskimo...
...tonal invasion of Arctic wastes and peoples was recognized. Percy Grainger and MacDowell have made tentative advances into the interpretation of the spirit of snow-lands. But it has remained for a Danish disciple of the Norwegian Grieg to bring forth a full-fledged, large-proportioned evocation of Eskimo life, of its strange superstitions and frigid passions...
...southeastern Asia, or somewhere on a belt stretching northwest to England. No traces of really ancient humans had been found in America, and the Western Hemisphere was believed to have been uninhabited by men until people from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year on the La Brea ranch, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution, recently punctured...
...disregards the facts who considers pacifism the easy way to tread. Whether it will prove to be the best way is still a matter of opinion. In any case, there appears to be no sound reason for treating a pacifist any more harshly than a Yale man, or an Eskimo or a Baptist. Different, no doubt: but not irrevocably lost...
...their younger brother, reserve No. 4, which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...