Word: pueblo
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Archbishop Lamy's work echoed again last week when it entered a new phase. Out of his old province the Vatican took Colorado, added Wyoming, and shaped its 20th ecclesiastical province in the U.S.: Denver, with suffragan sees in Pueblo and Cheyenne. Columnist Lee Casey of Rocky Mountain News pointed up the change 81 years had brought: "Denver's first bishop was its first priest; Denver's first archbishop will have two suffragan bishops, 437 priests and 180,250 communicants in his jurisdiction." Archbishop-elect is the Most Rev. Urban John Vehr, Bishop of Denver...
...scheduled to arise. In addition to enlargement and rehabilitation of existing blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second-hand from eastern mills where they were not in use, would have...
...study of rings, so that old wood can be dated by its growth patterns, was begun in 1904 by Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who was interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian pueblo, date it exactly as far back as 11 A.D. Sequoia wood from the High Sierra can now be dated back to 1305 B.C. Since the weather, and therefore tree growth, varies from place to place, master tree-ring charts must be worked out for different districts of the U.S. Florence...
...pests which they may have to fight. Meteorologists welcome the tree-ring studies because weather forecasts derive in part from elaborate past data. And archeologists can read history in tree rings: Douglass, for example, showed that the dreadful drought which started the decline of the high culture of the Pueblo Indians began in 1276, ended...
Class IV. In Jemez Pueblo, N. Mex., Indian medicine freshmen claimed exemption from the draft as theological students...