Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year on the La Brea ranch, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution, recently punctured all discoveries hitherto as not more than 5,000 years old. A human deposit of the late glacial period, found near Trenton, N. J., however, is considered genuine by many paleontologists. Dr. Hill and his colleagues...
...their return from Europe, Charles and Kathleen Norris spent some weeks in Manhattan before seeking their California ranch life. This highly literary family is always interesting; for both Mr. Norris and his wife are vivid, keen-minded, hospitable...
Between 50,000 and 100,000 claims (totaling $100,000,000) are being prepared against the Mexican govern-ment by American citizens and corporations. Virtually every petroleum company operating in Mexico, every copper, gold and silver mining company, individuals (including ranch owners), business interests, and relatives of persons injured and killed in the course of the last decade of revolution, spoilation and expropriation, are filling in the appropriate blanks distributed by the U. S. State Department. Thus Mexico will soon face a $100,000,000 bill...
Several years ago a Cleveland bank won undeserved fame by sponsoring a California Ranching Company, consisting of a cat and rat ranch--the cats to eat the rats, the rats the cats, and the cat skins to be had free. The bank was forced to remove the sign, because potential investors obstructed regular business. But former Mayor Thompson of Chicago is now desirous of carrying the virtue Faith back to her high estate...
...several others connected with the affair had done likewise. Mr. Sinclair's private Secretary Mr. G. D. Wahlberg had advised Mr. Roosevelt to resign for fear of damage to his reputation, and Mr Wahlberg had mentioned the pass age of $68,000 to the foreman of secretary Fall's ranch. In concluding Archie Roosevelt declared that his, testimoney was all hearsay but that he believed the Committee should have benefit...