Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land boom in the 1880s. The landlocked city enhanced its metropolitan status by reaching out 20 miles to annex San Pedro as an outlet to the Pacific. By 1900, the population exceeded 100,000, and when Los Angeles quenched its thirst with an aqueduct to the far-off Owens River Valley in 1913, its destiny was sealed. Los Angeles and its environs claimed well over 2,000,000 inhabitants by 1930. Having emerged after World War II as a center for the aviation and electronics industries, the burgeoning
...death and resurrection. But early Christian depictions of the event as sculpture are all but unknown; apart from Cleveland's acquisitions, only one other marble group, found at Tarsus in 1876, is known to exist. As he is portrayed in Cleveland's marbles, Jonah resembles the Greek river god appearing in some Antioch mosaics, and the sculptor gave his fancy free rein in carving the curious sea monster with leonine feet and massive ears...
...different times and in different parts of the world have seen something buzzing about in the sky, silently or with a low humming, shining by day or glowing by night, scorching the earth or disturbing the water under its burnished bottom, sometimes plunging into the sea or a river, but mostly zooming off, presumably back to where it came from...
Unlike the Hottentots and Bushmen, the Bantu were a powerful, well-organized society, experienced in the art of warfare. But the whites broke the back of their resistance at the battle of Blood River, and went on to establish their farms in the high veld...
...breach-ofwarranty action only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused by a faulty altimeter that had registered a height of 500 feet when the plane was at ground level...