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...section of the roof of the Cathedral crumbled and crashed to the ground; many surrounding buildings were ruined, windows for yards around splintered. The crowd stood still for one ghastly second, then fled pellmell. Amid cries of the wounded and dying the military threw a cordon around the stricken area, filled with poisonous fumes from the exploded pyroxylin bomb. Surgeons, soldiers and members of the Cabinet-except Minister of the Interior Rouseff and Minister of Justice Boloshersky (dead), Premier Tsankoff and War Minister Vulkoff (slightly injured)-rendered first aid to the victims. When the final accounting of the grim tragedy...
...Kentucky, diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...vitiating an otherwise fairly efficient and adaptable educational system. On the other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign a pigeon-hole as the area of his progress, naturally cries "Away with the monster. Paternalism and nothing else is the cause of my stagnation...
...concession. There is nothing to prove collusion between the Japanese and the Bolsheviki to void the Sinclair concession; but, in the Russo-Japanese treaty (Protocol B., Article 1) signed Jan. 20, 1925, it was expressly provided that Japanese were to receive "concessions for the exploitation of 50% of the area of every oil field in Northern Sakhalin. . . ." This, in effect, annulled half the Sinclair concession. By other terms of the treaty, it was made advantageous for the Bolsheviki to lease the remainder of the concession to the Japanese, who would enjoy the active support of their Government. The cancelation...
...territorial basis, the self-governing Dominions (Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Irish Free State and Malta, all of which are largely sovereign Powers owing allegiance to a common King) have a total area of 7,471,938 square miles, which is slightly more than 55% of the area of all the land possessed in name by King George V, i. e. 13,357,672 square miles. Hence, since a choice must be made, it would seem to fall upon "Commonwealth...