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...wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...
...Starcevo vestiges of several prehistoric periods were observed, ranging from the early New Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron Ages. Foundations of hut dwellings, skeletal and cremated graves, as well as quantities of ceramics, bone and stone artefacts, and a few metal objects, comprised the major finds. The Neolithic layer of the site proved to be the most important. Its yield of fine painted pottery was particularly surprising to the excavators...
Tarzan, the Ape Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins in matter-of-fact fashion when a young English girl named Jane Parker (Maureen O'Sullivan) arrives at the cozy hut of her father, an African trader. She is a pleasant character and one not easily startled. Her most definite characteristic is a warm enthusiasm for maternity which makes her approve of 1) an African baby in a bag, 2) a hippopotababy waddling after its mother, 3) a small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long...
...over by the Great Goddess Nuliayok. The Eskimo language is difficult. How did Monsignor Turquetil, an Oblate Father journeying from France to Canada in 1900 at the age of 24?how did he shepherd 7,000 scattered souls during his 30 icy years? How gain entry to the Eskimo hut, be welcomed with "Qujangnamik...
...days later a new patrol mushed out to Rat River to avenge Constable King. Albert Johnson had used the interval to turn his hut into a blockhouse. He had dug the dirt floor out to a depth of four feet, cut loopholes at the floor level. For 15 hours Albert Johnson held off the Mounties. Hand grenades blew the roof off his hut. Albert Johnson retired, like an angry woodchuck stern foremost into a dugout, kept fighting. The police retired, disgruntled...