Word: unearthing
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...Communist Chinese, who have mounted massive searches to unearth a manuscript to match it, the Ch'u silk is as important and remote as Taiwan. But Sackler, who paid more for it than the combined cost of his 10,000-piece collection of early Asiatic paintings, sculptures and other artifacts, intends to make infra-red photographs of the priceless manuscript available to scholars everywhere. Including Red China...
Pepelasis saw the lawyer and offered him a demanding job in legal research. His assignment: to review the entire body of Greek legislation and unearth obsolete laws that are frustrating modern agricultural development. His salary: 7,000 drachmas ($233) a month. There were other offers, but this was the best. A day or two before TIME appeared Georgakakis actually had his first chance, thanks to Queen Mother Frederika, who had induced the Federation of Greek Industries to give him a job at 3,000 drachmas a month...
...hundredfold in scholarly discoveries. Nonetheless, some educators are beginning to wonder about the impact of all that easy-come money on the universities. Salary, prestige and promotion depend upon a scholar's ability to probe and publish-which in turn often depends upon his ability to unearth research grants. "You need the federal loot to do the research to do the book to get the loot," says Stephen Trachtenberg, an assistant to U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe. "Research aid comes too easily to the researchers," adds Engineering Science Professor Samuel Silver of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory...
...also preserves masses of clippings and miscellaneous photographs, which he somehow manages to unearth when they fit an idea. Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog-which depicts the Moorhead, Miss., crossing of the Southern Railway and the old Yazoo City Line, colloquially known as "the Yellow Dog"-was inspired by a line from W. C. Handy's Yellow Dog Blues that Cloar had jotted down on a scrap of paper...
...would think of those bones at bed time. We all became kind of fond of him," said Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, after spending ten days pecking away with trowel, whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town...