Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Basket Makers are the earliest inhabitants of the Southwest of whom archeologists have any exact knowledge. They date back from 3,000 to 10,000 years. Their material culture differed considerably from that of later Indians. The chief interest of these Basket Makers for modern science lies in the fact that they were probably the first people in the United States to practice systematized agriculture. They cultivated a very primitive variety of corn from which it is believed maize is derived...
...direction of Noel Morss '26. The object of the expedition will be the investigation of certain sites in southern Utah, which are in a region so rarely visited that native wild sheep are found in considerable numbers. The section is regarded as the least known archeaeologically in the whole Southwest and it is one which is at present unrepresented in the Peabody Museum
...side of race and nationality, particular emphasis is being placed upon the study of negro and Mexican delinquents in the South and in the Southwest, and upon a number of immigrant groups in other parts of the country. This study will also include the gathering of comparable samples of the law-abiding population...
Natural Gas. Of 15 natural gas companies furnishing 16 billion cubic feet of gas each year to 32 communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana-Southwest Gas Utilities Corp. was formed. President is Charles G. Laskey, bland, onetime prospector of the district served...
...history of Crawley, a small village near Winchester in southwest England is being studied from the year 643 to the present time by N. S. B. Gras '12, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History who was recently given one of the Milton Awards...