Word: gur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed the old Santa Fe wagon and cattle trail, west from Topeka through Council Grove, Dodge City, across the muddy Arkansas River and into New Mexico. There were few passengers and not much freight until the West grew. But the West grew. And the West is still growing. Railroader Gur ley expects the Santa Fe to keep up with...
...Eire, Irish archeologists have peacefully dug into their country's prehistory. In 1934 some 30 excavation projects were set going by the Irish Government, to make work for laborers as well as to illuminate Eire's antiquity. Last week, with the 1940 season wound up at Lough Gur in County Limerick, word came from there that a continuous chain of human habitations had been traced back-through the Norman and Viking invasions, through the Bronze Age to the Stone Age-to the oldest known village site in Eire. It was dated...
Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood...
Bronze Age pottery discovered at Lough Gur is the first direct evidence in Eire of the archeologically famed "Beaker people," so named for the drinking vessels which they buried with their dead. Some archeologists believe the tall, husky, brachycephalic (roundheaded) Beaker people came into Europe from the steppes of southern Russia, where burials resembling the Beaker graves have been found...
Reports that British planes were bombing and ranging wide over such scattered points as Hargeisa and Berbera in Italian-held British Somaliland, Agordat and Gurá south of Asmara in Eritrea, and, more particularly, over the oasis of Siwa deep in the desert near the Libyan frontier, and at Metemmeh in Ethiopia near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border, indicated the British were keeping their air eyes open for signs of any new thrust toward the heart of the Nile Valley...