Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From India through Java, Australia and Africa, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the U. S. National Museum, scouted out new fields for scientific research. Returning last month to Washington, he reported several new species of fossil big apes in Siwalik Hills (Burma); a new place to dig in the Solo Valley, stamping ground of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman; two new cave men's skeletons from the Broken Hill country in Rhodesia, South Africa, source of the famed Taungs skull...
...been branded as a 'radical plot," and the American Legion has refused to take part, because some of the marchers are alleged pacifists. However, many such organizations as the League of Women's Voters, the Knights of Pythias, and the like, are marching. The parade will go up Beacon Hill and pass a reviewing stand on the Boston Common...
...continued to elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill and shovel the earth over...
...chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests of gold dragged to his cottage door each week and Neronic feasts of roast duck, bouillabaisse and champagne, while the coin is counted...
Gore Hall--B. H. Beal, E. P. Dewing, A. M. Geissler, G. D. Guggenhelm, T. S. Kernan, James Lawrence, G. L. Leach, and E. T. Putnam. Non-Residents from Little Hall, G. P. Davis, E. W. Sexton, R. K. Hill, and P. S. Wise...