Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military burial has a certain dignity. But the final rites of a national citizen such as Mr. Holmes was do not need the suppressions dignity, do not need the trend of marching feet, the roll of drums, to call forth their just tribute from the nation...
Services for Ephraim Emerton '71, whose books are known to all History 1 students and graduates, will be held in the Memorial Chapel at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. Henry W. Foote and burial will take place in Mount Auburn Cemetery...
...since the Middle Ages has the dilapidated mud-walled city of Loyang seen such activity. Beneath a row of dusty cliffs, Loyang, long before the Manchus glorified Peiping, was the capital of six dynasties of Chinese Emperors. There is nothing to show for it today but miles of imperial burial mounds and the hope that lies in the workshops and fields of the new airport...
...cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases. T'ang burial figures, carved jades, Hawthorn jars, gold, bronze and ivory figures, in all about 3,000 pieces bought for Britain this month at a cost of ?100,000 from a faun-faced elderly Greek named George Eumorfopoulos...
Life insurance companies today know how principals of policies are swept away in the sentimental exhibitionism of relatives intent upon glorious burial of mortal clay...