Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a woolly mammoth died on the Siberian tundra, it sometimes fell into a quagmire. There the permafrost, operating like a modern freezer, preserved the carcass intact for thousands of years. In temperate New Zealand there was no permafrost but in South Island's Pyramid Valley paleontologists have found a good substitute. From about 18,000 B.C. until 2,-000 years ago, the valley contained a swamp whose lush vegetation attracted moas-great, flightless birds which weighed up to a quarter...
...take of an airborne summer "dig." He had been in Alaska trying to determine the extent of the Ipiutak (ancient Eskimo) culture that flourished there 2,000 years ago. The forgotten culture, apparently, had more connection with Asia than with North America. Its elaborate tools and art objects look Siberian or Chinese...
Most scientists believe that the Asiatic immigrants who people the Americas crossed Bering Strait in a low state of culture. But the Ipiutak people, Larsen thinks, were a notable exception. They brought along a rich, if savage, Siberian culture, with roots as far away as the Ural Mountains. Among the remarkable objects found in Ipiutak ruins are chains and swivels cut laboriously out of walrus ivory. They have no strength and are obviously not for use. Larsen believes that the Ipiutaks, pushing farther & farther into Arctic America, eventually lost touch with their sources of metal. But their religion still demanded...
...that anything said to them was known to the whole world in 24 hours. Stalin agreed and said he did not think it was necessary to speak to the Chinese of these arrangements at this time." Stalin would first like to complete the movement of 25 divisions to the Siberian-Manchurian frontier. "Stalin said that the tentative arrangements concerning the Far East should be put in writing and this was accordingly done...
Last week, he pasted a neat miniature of Molotov in his album: "Cannonball head . . . comprehending eyes . . . slab face ... a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure...