Word: straitly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Specifically, Russia did not like the fact that the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
...Ales Hrdlicka, of the National Museum at Washington, read a paper arguing that human beings first came to this continent about 10,000 years ago across Bering Strait. He asserted that they were of yellow-brown races, and believes that the first to come were ancestors of the Mayas, Toltecs and early Peruvian tribes, these being followed in turn by Aztecs, Shoshone-Algonquins, and Atabascans...
...which to grind out the ever-trustworthy story of the girl from the East, with her conventional prejudices, brought into collision with the handsome man of the great open shirtfronts who knows only the law of the gun. It is easy to foresee that the girl, with her strait-laced notions about the dastardliness of shooting even in self-defense, is herself going to be faced with the problem of killing a man, before her brain clears. Then Alice Calhoun feels free to love John Bowers, though he claims three murders to his credit. The photoplay...
Wrangel Island, 400 miles northwest of Bering Strait, is a forbidding mass of naked granite rock (35x70 miles), rising more than 2,000 ft. out of the Arctic Ocean. A dreary and blizzard-swept place, of tragic memory, it is nevertheless popular because of its possible usefulness as a base for future Arctic exploration...
...birthplace of genuine man was probably in southeastern Asia, or somewhere on a belt stretching northwest to England. No traces of really ancient humans had been found in America, and the Western Hemisphere was believed to have been uninhabited by men until people from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year on the La Brea ranch, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka...