Word: orr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spaniards who came to Southern California in the 16th century found the local Indians a dull lot. The native tribes raised no crops, did little hunting, lived relaxed lives on acorns and sea food, and offered only feeble resistance to Spanish soldiers and missionaries. Last week Anthropologist Phil C. Orr of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History described some huskier, earlier and odder Californians whose remains he discovered on barren Santa Rosa Island, off Santa Barbara...
...years Dr. Orr had been digging up skeletons of the Canalinos, the small, fish-eating Indians who lived on the island when the Spanish arrived. One day, while tramping the island, he stumbled on a skull half-buried in the sand. It did not take an anthropologist to tell that this skull was peculiar: it was painted or dyed a brilliant Chinese...
...addition, architects Douglas Orr and Eero Saarinen and associates have been authorized to prepare working plans for the structure which will be contemporary in design. It will be located on a hilltop of the Pierson-Sage Square to the rear of the present Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, in the vicinity of Sachem and Prospect Streets...
...original million, except for a few bucketfuls he had made in Wall Street and in a Baltimore firm which produced color charts, had come from relatives too. (Grandfather Orr was president of the New York Life Insurance Co.) Until he was 37, Alexander did not protest; he had attended Harvard, served in World War I, and entered business-a conformist in a Brooks Brothers suit...
Alexander Ector Orr Munsell would not say. He stayed inside his house, surveying the outer world cautiously through a peephole in his door and, presumably, wrestling mightily with temptation...