Land of Sunshine, Volume 27F.A. Pattee & Company, 1907 Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America. |
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Page 533 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Page 503 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regret and future Fears : To-morrow! — Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Page 365 - ... grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear; He read the third; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth; he broke into a roar; The fifth; his waistband split; The sixth; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Page 213 - Columbia should push their investigations eastward through the area drained by the Columbia and the Snake, thus attempting to define the eastern limits of the Plateau culture, to bound it, and to further our knowledge of it. Again, the explorers of the Mississippi Valley are perhaps best fitted to investigate the western limits of the culture found there. Some of these individuals are already interested in the prehistoric migrations of the Mandan, who are thought to have taken a northwesterly course...
Page 187 - Be this my home till some fair star Stoops earthward and shall beckon me ; For surely Godland lies not far From these Greek heights and this great sea. My friend, my lover, trend this way; Not far along lies Arcady.
Page 211 - It would seem advisable to conduct this archaeological work in co-operation with students who are investigating living tribes; for a study of the modern Indian of a certain spot throws light on the archaeology of the region, and an understanding of the antiquities of a given place is helpful in the study of its natives. Furthermore, by this system, the continuity of historical problems is met by a continuity of method. In selecting successive fields of operation, it would seem best to continue explorations...
Page 369 - Dictionary, and devoted to a compact correction of the blunders — the sore and shameful blunders — of the Century Dictionary touching the English language as she is defined for the United States and the New World in general. As a single example, I will remark that this monumental dictionary, which has the face to charge its patrons something like $80 a set, defines the pepper tree — which I have seen in its habitat in Peru, and of which there is a specimen in San Juan Capistrano, Cal., with...