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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other innocent lopings: "Won't You-Pull Over?", "Should Admirals Shave?", "The Temptation of Anthony," "The Origin and Growth of the Tiller Girls...
...region in which Nuzi lies is on the borders of Babylon and Assyria, and was in antiquity occupied by a people known as the Guti, the ruins of whose cities are now represented by numerous mounds The Guti seem not to have been Semites, but probably of Hittite origin. Most of the proper names in the inscriptions from Nuzi are non-Semitic. Many of these, such as Durar-Teshub, Shar-Teshub, have as their second element the name of the chief Hittite god, Teshub. The language of the inscriptions is Assyrian, with considerable intermixture of non-Assyrian words...
...long line of philosophers who have tried to explain the Earth's origin, the best died last week. He was Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 85, professor emeritus of geology at the University of Chicago. His death was due to heart disease, made worse by bronchial pneumonia. His theory, the planetesimal, he ex pounded again in a new book published only last month - The Two Solar Families - the Sun's Children (University of Chicago Press, $2.50). In brief his theory is this : Eons ago a Star, swished near the Sun and by its gravity, sucked a great, explosive cloud...
...those interested in a kind of music that is more than any other of essentially popular origin, the selection of typical folk songs of all nations that will be sung by Miss de Almeida in the Music Building at 10 o'clock this morning should prove a strong attraction. Lectures of interest for today...
...remarkable ethnological study that traces the origin and expansion of Chinese culture groups and families...