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...masculine gender and the word applied to "females" should be 'Filipina"-further there are no adult Filipinas who amble about naked, particularly in the coastal towns, and my experience with these natives since 1900 is that even the so-called wild or "head hunter" tribes of the interior are quite modest...
...been for the skill of the Paya Indians in navigating the tremendous rapids, it is doubtful whether I could have reached the interior," contained Mr. Spinden. "Although they are an extremely primitive people, dating back to pre-Columbian times, the Payas are boat-men of great daring and endurance, who drive forward in the face of the most tumultuous streams. I was alone with these natives during the course of my trip and found them a very interesting people, more humanly attractive than the comparatively civilized Maya Indians of Yucatan...
There were few freaks on exhibit: an amphibious Peugeot, a motor boat on wheels, ready to take to the water by a simple shifting of gear; the Bleriot wood-burning car (TIME, Oct. 11) generating gas from fagots; a Fiat with an oak-mahogany paneling, interior drive, 26-h.p.; an electric Parville, claimed to run 930 miles without a recharged battery...
...mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength as the continental fragments slipped down over the earth's body. During the process of folding along the border of the invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were pouring out through the tension-cracks of the continental interior. The fissures, through which the lavas rose, became sealed with frozen basalt...A new, heavy, deep-lying crust became ready to receive the water running in from the ancient Pacific Ocean; the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Oceans thus came into being...
Last week, the civil proceedings moved another stage nearer completion. The Government won a victory in its attempt to recover the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves which onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased to the Mammoth Oil Co. (a Harry F. Sinclair institution). Judge William Squire Kenyon- presiding judge of Iowa, in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, reversed the decision of the Wyoming district court (TIME, June 29, 1925); ordered it to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co.'s leases and to demand an accounting of the oil which...