Word: jasper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother made a find in a dry arroyo that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating ice rim, came to feed. That the hunters were contemporaries of the animals was perfectly plain...
...House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders for the Speakership were still in the running: loud, rambunctious John Elliott Rankin of Tupelo, Miss., and William B. Bankhead (father of Tallulah and the Cotton Control Act) of Jasper...
...late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching walnut cabinet for music rolls (to Mrs. Victor Schutte; $87.50). A rose and ivory French hand-piled rug was appraised at $8,000, sold for $500. Vases and urns, including a huge Austrian-ware receptacle decorated with a lavender, red and green battle scene ($250), stood in every...
...other directors for one year, the following nominations were made: from Harvard at large, Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen; and Alfred C. Redfield '13; from M. I. T. at large, Horace S. Ford and Jasper Whiting; from officers of Harvard, Clinton P. Biddle, professor of investment banking; from alumni of Harvard, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English; from the students of M. I. T., John B. Ballard '35; from the Senior class of Harvard, E. Francis Bowditch; from the Junior class of Harvard, Robert S. Playfair; from the Sophomore class of Harvard, Charles C. Gibson...
...reason why he should not be one of the happiest inhabitants of heaven. There's so much work to be done. He will look at the streets of gold and the many mansions of jade and jasper and then if Hood carries with him something of his mortality he'll say 'Not that, let's have steel and glass.' And if he is still the man he was, which I most fervently believe, already the riveting machines have begun their fanfare within the pearly gates...