Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island of Umnak, Dr. Hrdlicka turned up another rich find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert anthropologists, said Dr. Hrdlicka...
...position of leadership in the world in the past has always entailed the premature burial of numbers of the nation's young men, and nobody deplores this trend more strongly than I do. The only question is this: are there other things which are worse? I think there...
...business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...
...Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months before. On the dead girl's grave, they found the dead boy's coat. When they exhumed her, they found a wine stain on her white burial dress...
...gold ornaments. On its face was a gold mask in the shape of a hawk's head. Two badly decomposed skeletons nearby, one wearing a carnelian necklace, were presumed to be those of servants. The mummy itself reposed in a silver coffin, the first ever found in the burial chambers of the Pharaohs. In ancient Egypt silver was called "white gold," and, because it was rarer there than real gold, was held more precious...