Word: rivers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member of the Carnegie Institution expedition to Yucatan and Guatemala; in 1923 in charge of excavations at Ketchipann, N. M., in the joint interests of the Museum of the American Indian and Cambridge University; in 1925 in charge of the joint excavations in the delta of the Parana River, South America. Since 1923 he has filled the position of research associate in the Museum of the American Indian, New York City...
...author went to his brother's cattle ranch on the bank of a river in Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life...
...Yonson" voters, appeared with the Nominee in St. Paul but did not commit himself. The report that he was "hurt" followed the Nominee's neglect to mention what the Senator had done to get a Federal barge service on Minnesota's end of the Mississippi River...
Lucky, socalled, a greasy and peculiar police-bitch, swam from Albany to Manhattan down the Hudson River in 44 hr., 52 min. Such human beings as have also swum from Albany to New York, though enraged to discover that the bitch had done it in five hours less than the best of them, were comforted to discover that she swam only two hours at a stretch, while their intervals of paddling had been longer...
Died. George J. Baker of Detroit, Mich.,** Captain & part-owner of the trans-Atlantic racing yacht Azara (TIME, Aug. 13); after a sudden illness; on board his boat in the Guadalquivir River, Spain...