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...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...
...With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
While men's colleges faced a great decision, women's colleges also began to realize last week that they had come to a fork in the road. Urging a national service act for women, the American Council on Education's President George Zook said: "It is clear that women students cannot expect to pursue college as usual while their brothers and male friends are rushed off. . . . Courses for women are going to be shortened and they are going to be directed toward preparation for specific types of war service. . . . These war jobs are going to appear...
...Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...
...Thru God's grace Mike and I are still together. Forded river near fork. . . . Spent last night in chute. Mike caught up. Spent night on hillside, rain starting at four, under small rock. . . . Rained early. Saw wallaby [a small kangaroo...