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...reliable compendium of Mayan culture-Author Willard is himself an accomplished archeologist-the book recites in Thompson's own words the feats of dredging, and then diving, to the bottom of the home of Yum Chac, the Rain God-a limestone sinkhole 160 feet across and 150 feet deep-where virgins and warriors, decked with jade and golden bells, accompanied by balls of copal (aromatic resin), rubber and cotton goods, pottery, engraved golden disks, weapons, tiaras, brooches, mirrors, were flung as sacrifices from the high brink (TIME, Nov. 16, SCIENCE...
...British laboratory a white-haired savant bent, over a microscope, lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...
...made in January. The terms of the gift were redrawn by Premier Ziwar and his distinguished colleagues and returned to Mr. Rockefeller (via his representative Professor James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist) (TIME, May 3). Mr. Rockefeller acquiesced in Egypt's terms?which it then repudiated, evidently fearing something deep and scheming beneath such apparent magnanimity...
...home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with his seafaring father before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe, Heine, Swinburne, Whitman were major prophets. He was shipped to Australia at 16?a shotgun...