Word: archeologist
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...renovation plans quickly became a hot issue in Lincoln-conscious Springfield. Although the house had been painted white as far back as anyone could remember, there now appeared a vocal group of citizens headed by Archeologist Richard Hagan who argued that when Lincoln lived in it the house was brown...
Caught in a spirited crossfire of editorial criticism and scholarly sniping, State Parks Director Ray Hubbs called on members of Governor Adlai Stevenson's Lincoln Advisory Committee to settle the issue. When committee members assembled on the Lincoln lawn, they were confronted by Archeologist Hagan and Miss Virginia Stuart Brown, custodian of the house and a leader of the "leave-it-white" faction. Mr. Hagan was armed with a small piece of Lincoln house board which he had scraped down to a basic color described as "hound-dog yellow." Miss Brown, distressed at the prospect of a hound...
Professor Ernest A. Rudge of West Ham Municipal College was on a picnic with his wife near Holyfield, twelve miles northeast of London, when he first noticed the odd, pear-shaped stone. Made of pebbles embedded in sandstone (conglomerate), it looked like a pudding full of raisins. To Archeologist Rudge the stone seemed out of place in that area; there is no native conglomerate within five miles...
Jacquetta Hawkes is an archeologist in love with the earth and stone of her native Britain. Out of her studies and her warm prejudice has come an extraordinary book called A Land, tracing the relationship between man and rock. With its publication in the U.S. last week (Random House; $3.75), readers found that the book is also a refreshing document on stone...
...Archeologist, British intelligence officer, combat-wise leader of Arab guerrillas during World War I, brilliant theoretician of war, master of English prose-all these, and more, was T. E. Lawrence...