Word: huanuco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making at least one original contribution to human knowledge. This grows harder (or sillier) every year. Students thrilled last week to read about Thomas Walsh Jr. of Chicago, a student who gave his life for his Ph.D. Chemistry Student Walsh and his friend Harold Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp...
They entered the Maranon river at Huanuco. For a week a crew of stocky, snub-nosed Indian porters pushed them upstream in dugouts. Then the Indians were sent back. Walsh and Foard went on alone in a strong high-sided boat that had been sent from New York in sections...
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