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...fully crystallize until last week. Then, at a Cabinet meeting, Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha voiced the real dissatisfaction of Turks at the action of the U. S. Senate. The U. S., said Dictator Kemal, in substance, does not understand that the "Terrible Turk" of Ottoman days is extinct. . . . The Young Turks of today are trying harder and with more success than any other backward people to catch up with the march of civilization...
...Denver harbors more than a ghost of the rip-roaring West that was. The vocabulary has altered little. The barroom brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...
There was little snow to be seen, because of the small precipitation in recent winters, but the extinct glciation more than compensated. On both sides of the Whitney group, glaciers formed in the cirques under the peaks and flowed down east and west, but in greater volume westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate...
...Permit me to express to you my great appreciation for your courtesy in showing me the remains of the mastodon which you are recovering from the old swamp near Johnstown. The specimen is an unusually perfect and complete skeleton of this interesting, extinct form of life. The individual was an adult in the prime of life, full grown, but not aged and decrepit. Presumably it was bogged down in the swamp and died there...
...mirror. The first of these essays describes the first visit of man to the Three Arch Rocks off the coast of Oregon, a surf-guarded, craggy home of seals and sea-lions, of murres, puffins, petrels and other seafowl in clamorous clouds. There is a chapter on extinct and vanishing species: the sturgeon and condor; an oil field that yielded 2,000 sabre-tooth tigers; peregrine falcons nesting in a skyscraper cornice; swarms of alewives (herring) rushing up a factory creek to spawn. Mr. Sharp has the faculty of reproducing backgrounds, from his native Hingham, Mass., to the swinging chain...