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...kind on gold coins but even omits to stamp what the thing is. Thus the latest English gold sovereigns (not issued since 1917) are not stamped "One Sovereign" and have nothing on them to indicate what they may be worth. On one side St. George, mounted, slays a dragon with his knightly sword. On the other side the head of George V. uncrowned, is surmounted not by an English promise but by a Latin abbreviation: Georgiuns V D. G. Britt: Omn: Rex D. F. Inde...
...person excepting a corporation and excepting a farmer'' could do last week as the result of a bill signed by President Hoover day before he left office. An important revision of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. the measure represented a final thrust by a dying Congress at the dragon of private debt. By providing machinery whereby an individual could compose or compromise his debts under a judicial eye, it required only a bare majority of creditors to effect an agreement...
...point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test a dragon bone is to touch it to the tongue. If the sample clings to the tongue, it is genuine...
Somewhere in its dazzling square mile of yellow-tiled buildings, Henry Pu Yi was born, son of the favorite grandnephew of the ancient Dowager Empress who made him heir to the Dragon throne of the "Great Pure" dynasty and all its treasures. In its interminable throne halls, temples, palaces, marble courts and concubines' quarters the Boy Emperor lived. Except for U. S. and European soldiers who looted it during the Boxer Rebellion, not 20 white men in the world had set foot in that forbidden preserve until the fall of the Empire in 1911. Until 1911, it contained...
...facts he dug out of almost a thousand books; tells readers where they may see a scale model of the Sea Witch (at the Museum of the City of New York), warns them they will find her figurehead no likeness of beautiful Mary Murray, but a gilded dragon...