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United States. The greatest sensation of the year in human fossils came to light on the Rancho Cunajo, near Los Angeles, Calif. A construction company, building a sewer, turned up a petrified skull and bone fragments of five human frames in a sand pit 23 feet below the surface. The strata are of the Pleistocene age, antedating the last great ice age, which ended at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Several trained scientists happened to be near, including Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution; Dr. Robert T. Hill, geologist; Dr. William A. Bryan, Director...
...movement of automobile parts and materials, as well as of cement, clay, gravel, sand, has increased...
Here is shown that strange and fascinating affinity between love and hate that sometimes drives playwrights to their pens. The connubial convulsions of this pair recall the passionate spats and spasms of Alfred De Musset and George Sand. They are modern de Medicis in love. There is poison in their kisses...
Arrangements have been completed with the Sand Hill Polo Club of Pine hurst, N. C., to have the University polo team practice there during the Easte recess. The playing will consist mostly of unofficial games with members of the Sand Hill and other clubs, which should do much to develop effective team-work for the intercollegiate hate meet...
...which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust which the analyst designated as Cantabrigian...