Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trail last week was Dr. Frank C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico. In 1941 he followed the trail to Alaska, where he found the characteristic Folsom dart points. This summer he will dig in Saskatchewan. His dream is to ransack Siberia, where the earliest Americans presumably came from...
...scientific fact that the world's map was very different in the geological past. Land bridges connected Alaska with Siberia, Europe with Africa. The oceans contained land areas that no longer exist. But such "lost continents" disappeared millions of years...
...York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia. The voice was the voice of California chambers of commerce, but the hands were the hands of Russia...
...Dreamland. For Shanghai's emigres, it was truly an era's end. Penniless and wretched, they had come down from Siberia and Manchuria. In what was then the French Concession and International Settlement they had set up a bit of old Russia, full of hate for the new Russia. Blue-blooded officers became janitors and doormen, ex-millionaires turned waiters, titled ladies opened delicatessens, hairdressing salons and apparel shops like Avenue Joffre's "Madame Fanny Corsets...
Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...