Word: ransacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trail last week was Dr. Frank C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico. In 1941 he followed the trail to Alaska, where he found the characteristic Folsom dart points. This summer he will dig in Saskatchewan. His dream is to ransack Siberia, where the earliest Americans presumably came from...
...glorious artistic past. The young Persians, who knew more about Henry Ford than they did about Darius, were surprised. Pope was asked to do it again before the Cabinet. The Prime Minister, who became the Shah that year, was so impressed that he gave Pope permission to ransack the art treasures of the country. Pope, sometimes disguised as a Moslem convert, has photographed and collected art works in every part of Persia. Back in Europe and the U. S. he wrote, talked, boomed Persian art incessantly...
...labor of love, Calvin Coolidge was six years a-writing. Biographer Fuess read the letters Coolidge wrote, from schooldays on, to his father and stepmother (Col. John Coolidge kept them in a big mahogany cigar humidor); Mrs. Coolidge gave him personal documents, answered questions; he was permitted to ransack the Coolidge file of Frank W. Stearns, Boston department store tycoon and Coolidge's political deus ex machina; he talked to dozens who knew Coolidge. For his labors, Biographer Fuess has assembled more facts than did his livelier rival, William Allen White, whose Coolidge biography, A Puritan in Babylon...