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...pure American Indian type among Asian aborigines; noted scattered strains of Negrito stock as far apart as India, Africa and the Philippines; studied towheaded Negroes in Australia; found fossils of a new type of big ape in the Siwalik Hills of Burma; a new place (the Solo Valley) to dig for remains of the Java ape man; two new cave men's skeletons in the Broken Hill country, Rhodesia, South Africa (TIME...
Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson...
...George Washington Baker, leading counsel of the Southern Pacific Railroad in days when emiment railroad lawyers were advised to carry guns. The baby University of Nevada and the slightly more sophisticated Leland Stanford University gave him his education. Then he went into the hills of his home to dig opulence. With flowing red tie and cartoon-hat, he was as good a miner as the rest-"the most fearless man who ever entered Funeral Range which guards Death Valley." is the title he acquired. He was one of the first into the Rawhide gold boom. He located "Windy Point," "Dead...
...plain, the grain elevators are plain, the rivers are plain, the sunflower is a plain flower. The highways are unpaved. Indelible is the stamp of the Kansas road on the transcontinental touring car that strikes rain between St. Joseph and Denver and the driver must get out to dig the clay from the mudguards so that the wheels can turn round...
...liberty exactly as they see fit. In many jurisdictions a man who has a family can no longer mortgage his house, which he has bought with his own money, nor spend his own wages in such away as to leave his wife homeless or destitute. Likewise a man cannot dig a well on his own land so as to drain off another man's well unless there is some sufficient cause for his doing...