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...bring those two governments upon the verge of a diplomatic break. Even the efforts of Ambassador Child as a neutral observer could not avert the deadlock which resulted. And as the second conference opens the Turk believes he has made his own position even more secure by tossing a bone in the form of the Chester concessions to the United States...
Devereux Milburn, polo player: "I had a small piece of bone removed from my knee because of an accident on the field two weeks ago. I expect to play again in June...
...Chapel a Bone of Contention...
ALASKA: Governor Scott C. Bone in opening the Territorial Legislature at Juneau censured D. A. Sutherland, Alaska's delegate to Congress, who inserted a charge in The Congressional Record that the Alaskan fisheries had been turned over to a fish trust...
...picture is one to fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West...