Word: seton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where is the motherland of civilization? Prehistorians generally locate it in Mesopotamia, but Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, thinks that the Anatolian Plateau farther north in Turkey may have been civilized first. One of his field parties has excavated a Bronze Age site near Burdur that looked at first like a small village of a dozen small houses. Deeper down, the diggers found mud and stone fortifications 10 to 15 ft. thick, and a wooden upper story that was apparently destroyed by fire about 4,500 B.C. Under the ruins were human skeletons...
...ball, intercept passes. Through it all he drew only one personal foul, though he played all but the final 45 seconds. If he had not been suffering from an injured back, Robertson might have eclipsed his own Madison Square Garden scoring record of 56 points, made last year against Seton Hall. Said N.Y.U. Coach Lou Rossini ruefully: "He's as great a basketball player as I've ever seen. I guess the only way to stop him would be to put four men on him and let one guy cover the other four...
...WINTHROP WOMAN (586 pp.)-Anya Seton-Houghfon Mifflin...
...called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves among the historic exhibits with the assurance of an attendant waving a feather duster...
Robertson showed them the biggest night, pro or amateur, in the history of Garden basketball. Floating through the defense of Seton Hall, the lithe, 6-ft. 4½-in. Negro from Indianapolis did everything right. He drove for layups, hooked from the foul line, jump-shot with either hand. He picked off rebounds, intercepted passes, set up teammates. When the Big O was done, Cincinnati had drubbed Seton Hall, 118-54, and the new boy in town had 56 points, a Garden record...