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...When communication was restored it was learned that the Near East Relief buildings at Leninakan still stand. and that neither the 9,000 orphans sheltered there nor their occidental nurses, matrons, doctors suffered a single casualty. Some idea of the material damage and loss of life in the quake area was to be gleaned from the fact that the equivalent of half a million dollars was appropriated by the various Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republics for Red Cross and general relief work...
...proven decidedly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as even a moderate wind would below the covering off the field. Although each of the four sections of the canvas weighs 1,600 pounds, benmen can spread and furl them in a fraction of the time formerly required to take the straw from the area between the goals...
Hanover, N.H., October 21. -The final practice of the Dartmouth football team in Hanover was held this noon on a field that had been covered by a four inch coat of snow during the night. A small area was scraped clear of snow in the middle of the field and much of the work-out this noon took place in this area. It was a short session of less than an hour and principally a loosening up drill...
...conceive of the cup of the stadium as the cup that holds a man's brain; to conceive of the ranked heads as the cells of the brain, each alone, yet united in a common consciousness, each fiercely kinetic, yet keeping its place in a segment, an area at once cut off from and united to other areas by dark intersecting lanes, and every cell, every segment, every area of the vast filled hollow burning inward and downward upon the mysterious core of its life-a little white ring with four posts. To conceive of this...
...South African mining areas, notably that at Kimberly, occur in the form of a huge vertical funnel or crater of "pay dirt" descending into the earth to a depth of half a mile or more. At first the area can be worked from the surface by the individual prospector. Later, as the pay dirt funnel is excavated, disastrous slides begin to occur and corporations must be organized to undertake expensive subsoil mining, which has been carried to a depth of 2600 ft. in some instances. Great diamond mining fortunes, like that of the late Cecil Rhodes, are usually made...