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...days later, undeterred by the fact that a native laborer stabbed his foreman in the back. Professor Hassan opened four other tombs, including that of Prince Khnumba-ef, Chephren's son, whose name means "His soul is the Creator"; and of Kishnofer, a provincial governor whose burial place bore the inscription, "First under the King...
Another trophy was a fragment of a marble sign, probably from the Library of Trajan, which bore this warning: "No book shall be taken out. We have sworn it! The library will be open from the first hour until the sixth...
...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
...daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...
...College Catalogue is generally conceded to have been guilty of understatement in regard to the number of hours needed for weekly laboratory assignments, as the Council Committee's survey bore out fairly conclusively. No conceivable objection can be raised against increasing these inaccurate estimates by the necessary amounts. A man should not have to be tricked into taking any laboratory course by the supposition that it is only a part-time job. He is too likely to be led toward a severance of University connections at a much earlier date than he had hoped or inteded...