Word: southwesterners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Changsha group had as their destination Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, in southwestern China. Some went by bus, some by junk and river steamer, some by rail, most on foot, in squads led by their professors. In Nanking, 1,086 students of National Central University, four times bombed, loaded boats with their books, laboratory equipment and machines from their shops, set out up the Yangtze. They arrived at Chungking, 1,000 miles away, after 43 days. (Their agricultural school's herd of blooded cattle, driven along the river banks, got there a year later.) More spectacular still...
...Arizona, where he had spent his youth. When he discovered that he didn't have to stay in Cleveland to do his cartooning he sold a Cleveland home that had cost him $65,000, shopped around for a likely ranch, and finally settled down in the lonely, Southwestern cow country where he lives today. One reason he bought his ranch: four men had been killed on it, one is buried under the basement of his kitchen...
Clarence P. Lee, now teaching at Southwestern University, Memphis, Tenn., as Teaching Fellow in English, B.A. Oxford '35; Willard C. Lacy, of Urbana, III., as Austin Teaching Fellow in Geology, A.M. Illinois '40; Orman P. Brown, of Brookline, as Teaching Fellow in Geology, A.M. Wyoming...
American scenes and characters are emphasized in the exhibit, which has received much favorable comment from Freshmen as well as upperclassmen. Agoos has many pictures of people from southern and southwestern United States, and Breed has several pictures of Colorader and Montana on display. Chadwick specializes in sea pictures, and Cornwell and Philip Field have taken numerous pictures of various scenes in New York City...
...Folsom campsite in Colorado may be as much as 25,000 years old. After Folsom Man there is a long gap to the remains of Siberian immigrants, perhaps 4,000 or 5,000 years old, found by Hrdlicka in Alaska. Then come the "Basket-Makers" who lived in the southwestern U. S. about 15 centuries B. C. and who preceded the Indians whom white invaders found...