Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's figures showed New York's metropolitan area?within a 40-mi. radius of the City Hall?to have about 11,000,000 inhabitants, exceeding the aggregate 1930 population of Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia. London's total population for a like area is estimated...
...This is the life!' trilled buxom Marion Nevada Talley, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano, as she plumped into the seat of a harvester combine and prepared to help bring in a wheat crop estimated at 200,000 bushels on her ranch at Colby...
...Bronze, to Nevada Northern Railroad Co...winner of group C (operating less than 1,000,000 locomotive...
Nebraska-born, Bob Davis learned the printer's trade in Nevada, news-reporting in San Francisco. In 1896 he went to Manhattan, joined Frank Andrew Munsey's staff in 1903, remained closely associated with the publisher until the latter's death in 1925. Later he became a director of the Munsey-owned Sun on a perpetual roving assignment, detailed by the Sun's President William Thompson Dewart who said: "My only instructions are that you see everything and write about it in your own vein. To you in the future, the whole earth is a local...
...Nevada. "Either Pleistocene animals survived in America many thousand years after they were supposed to have died out [20,000-30,000 years ago] or man jived in America some 20,000 years before he was supposed to." Reason for such a conclusion from Dr. Mark Raymond Harrington of the Los Angeles Southwest Museum: he had discovered remains of a man-made fire under seven feet of gypsum in a Nevada cave. The fire was surrounded by bones of a giant ground sloth which apparently the fire-builder had dis patched and eaten. Also in the cave were discovered...