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...today small cottages; they were generally equipped with little pit-like cellars, which some times contained a wooden bench beside a firepace. The dwellings were grouped closely together on top of the hill, but in the middle was an open space, perhaps a place of public assembly. Around the cluster of buildings was a stout stockade of heavy wooden posts, and in this were elaborately contrived gates, with special provision for defence. At some time the inhabitants apparently decided they needed more room and so they uprooted their stockade and moved it further down the hill. The lower one seems...
...adulterated with the propaganda-ingredient which is as inevitable in current Soviet films as the trademark of any commercial product, and of about the same artistic importance. Still, in spite of its faults, in spite of a photography sometimes just right and sometimes so overvividly alive that the images cluster into meaningless visual hurricanes or swirl away on independent sprees, Cain and Artem is not far behind the great Amkino products of the past. Best shot: the tug of war between two local strongmen, who, each tied to one end of a rope, stand on opposite houseroofs...
...distances in Japan are measured. So sturdy was the Central Railway Station's anti-earthquake bracing that it did not shake down (10). The "Hall of the Nameless Dead" (11) commemorates 33,000 victims of the fire. Major Japanese banks: Bank of Japan, Mitsui Bank, Mitsubishi Bank cluster near each other (12), but the National City Bank of New York is aloof (14). Number 13 is the lucky site of the Imperial Hotel, "most popular in the Far East," refuge of Occidentals during the fire, completely proof against mere earthquakes, though conceivably the earth might open and swallow...
...very fair and comely edifice" was a sort of boarding school with "a larger library with some books in it." The books were of course mostly theological. Today there are among other departments a great system of chemical laboratories a beautiful and elaborately devised medical school around which hospitals cluster observatories in Cambridge and South America and Arizona a branch school of medicine in China a main library with millions of books charts manuscripts; there are museums of a dozen specializations in short Harvard has become a great storehouse of our knowledge of man's past and of the earth...
...expect sympathy from us. You look too healthy," bantered Cabinet colleagues when the Secretary of War complained, at Cabinet meeting last week, of a pain in his abdomen. By the next morning the pain was a stabbing torment. A cluster of doctors, including Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Lieut.-Commander Joel T. Boone, the President's physician, had sent James William Good to have his appendix...