Word: rubbishing
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...made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns of marks resembling quail tracks. To learned eyes these cuneiform inscriptions revealed the names and dates of 95 Assyrian kings. Staffmember Gordon Loud of the Iraq expedition turned up the tablet beneath rubbish in the palace of Sennacherib's father, Sargon II, at Khorsabad. Sargon and Sennacherib ruled Assyria seven centuries before Christ. Names of only a few earlier monarchs were known, possibly because Sennacherib moved the records to Ninevah when he abandoned the Khorsabad palace after his father's death...
...Workmen, repairing the winding staircase of the White Tower, exhume some bones, throw them on a rubbish heap. Someone tells King Charles II, a sentimentalist, that the bones must be those of the murdered "Little Princes." He orders all the princely bones which can be recovered put in an urn. The sealed urn goes to Westminster Abbey to be kept with the dust of other English royalty...
...kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...second expedition will be in charge of D. S. Byers '25. It will excavate the ruins in a great cave on the Chinle valley near the Utah-Arizona line, formerly called Waterfall Ruin. The cave is thought to contain rubbish and ruins of cultures paralleling those that are represented by the Alkali Ridge sites. It is hoped that the results of the work will clarify the problem presented by the Ridge, and throw further light on some of the earlier cultures of the region, since the dry rubbish is known to contain perishable material not preserved in open sites...
...fishing inquiry. It was merely an effort to get this man. hour after hour, morning, noon & night, to commit himself to something. He was not informed on what charge he was arrested, but he was called upon to make a complete confession. Any testimony obtained by these means is rubbish...