Word: sites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fifty years. The river came right up to what is now Winthrop House, and in its place were rows of docks and the barges of the Baker Coal Company. Horse car and tracks went as far as the Harvard Trust building and turned round a stile on its present site. A stable occupied the Georgian's land on Dunster Street. Max Keezer played a pretty important part in the history of this land at one point. When Charley Smith owner of the Georgian was considering buying the property for $100,000, he asked Keezer whether it was worth it. "Sure...
...Marshall Field & Co., Chicago's biggest department store, reported $4,636,558 net, up 32.8%. During 1939 it bought the site of its main store building from the estate of its late, great founder Marshall Field with money borrowed at 3.6%, stood to save some $500,000 a year on its real-estate costs...
...report was based on extensive studies during the past four summers at the Lindenmeier site in Colorado, which had been investigated by archeologists under Dr. Frank H. B. Roberts, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institute, and is considered "the most important find in recent years." If has yielded over 2,000 ancient stone implements, many of which were found imbedded in the vertebrae of extinct mensters. Around these and similar relies found elsewhere, a whole civilization of so-called "Folsom men" developed...
...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...
Last week came another blow. Drs. Kirk Bryan and Louis Lamy Ray, Harvard geologists, having made an exhaustive geological study of the Lindenmeier site, published a formidable summary in which they concluded that its age was quite possibly 25,000 years...