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Cities having a population over 100,000 were shown last week to have increased from 68 in 1920 to 93 this year. The 93 contain more than one-fourth of the U. S. population. Notable among newcomers to this list were Fort Worth, Tex. (160,892), Flint, Mich. (156.422), Miami, Fla. (110.025), Tacoma, Wash. (106,837), Lynn (102,327), and Lowell (100,300), Mass, (textile centres...
...made entirely of sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with a complete heating plant; in the tomb of a dancing girl buried 2,000 years ago are a vanity case, a variety of rouges, mirrors, jewels, phials of perfume; 7,000 vases contain the skeletons of children sacrificed to some forgotten god; in a golden tomb lies the skeleton of a dead white woman who was part queen and part divinity. As Count de Prorok's party cross the desert in specially equipped cars- they meet a contemporary Caucasian tribe whose beautiful...
...Folger Shakespeare Memorial, now abuilding on Grant Row between the Congressional Library and the site of the new Supreme Court building, will contain reading rooms, exhibition rooms and a courtyard created in the image of a 16th Century English theatre. Cost...
Shouldering his way to Mr. Havenga's side came the Prime Minister, General Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog, bitter foe of General Smuts. The Constitution of General Hertzog's violent Nationalist Party used to contain a demand that Great Britain recognize the Right of Secession. This was stricken out only after the Imperial Conference at London in 1926 had invented what is called "Dominion Status"* (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926, et seq.). Returning to Capetown after the Conference, the Prime Minister announced that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession, and secure in this right South Africanders have been...
...heard by many of those who last week in Manhattan attended the eleventh annual conference of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. If they cannot hear spoken words they can see them by reading the speaker's lips. But the lip-reader's vocabulary must contain the words spoken him. No one can read from another's lips words he does not know.* Some two dozen lip-readers held a tournament at the conference. But because the lip, like the hand, can be quicker than the eye, none made perfect scores. "Prohibition is a noble experiment...