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Very little intensive archaeological work has yet been done in the Maya area. If the riddle is to be solved it will be done by energetic labor in the field and not by armchair theorizing and fireside dreaming. It is not beyond the limits of possibility that more codices more ancient books, will some day be found in sealed chests or chambers...
...area of the Russian Empire was over 19 million square versts (8 million English square miles) or one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. The area of the U. S. S. R. is considerable over 17 million square versts...
...warning contained formal notice that letters not so marked are liable to be returned or destroyed: "The term 'Russia' cannot be tolerated. It is suggestive merely of the area once under the dominion of the Tsar...
...might assume the presidency of his alma mater, DePauw University, after a 13-year administration in Boston (TIME, Dec. 22, 1924), the trustees of Boston University have been casting about to refill the presidential chair over which they have dominion. Bishop William F. Anderson, prelate of the Boston area of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, has filled the chair pro tempore...
...church door. Now, beginning next month, he will administer the affairs, social, pedagogical and financial, of a city university with 12,000 students-a big job, but his bishop (Bishop Francis J. McConnell) said when he heard the news: "He is far and away the best executive in my area . . . Dr. Marsh will succeed...