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...later model and in good condition, will be sent to Davy Jones's locker. In the meantime congress is granting money to enlarge our fleet. If Germany had been forced to give the United States a large sum of gold coin in place of these vessels we would not dump it into the ocean just because it came from a vanquished enemy. These ships have at least some value as transports, tenders, or as mother-ships for sea-planes. Is it a principle of our present system of naval economics that everything labelled "Made in Germany" must be destroyed...
...ancient still than those who built the temples of Napata. Where does the romance enter, in the researches which Dr. Reisner carried on here? In the fact that the explorer finds the ancient statues of the Ethiopian kings in the very place that he was clearing to make a dump heap for his rubbish. Promoting this spot, therefore, to the place of honor in his diggings he clears a still more distant and unregarded place for his dump--and there finds more wonderful things still. In archaeology, chance is often the great baffler of the explorer, but sometimes...
...dump heap that they were put by the Egyptian reconstructors of the temple after a destruction of it subsequent to 600 B. C. The Egyptians of that period, regarding themselves as moderns of the moderns, and certainly the most up-to-date thing then existing, had no respect whatever for the monuments of the Ethiopian period. Old rubbish to the dump. Ten great kings, each perhaps in his own way as great as Ozymandias, king of kings, were "scrapped" relentlessly by those moderns of long ago--scrapped in contemptuous fragments. Nothing more forever of Tirhaka the magnificent, of Tanut-Amon...
...Seniors, dump out those old stockings, and join the biggest and best Garden Party ever attempted...
After Potter and Hann had each got home runs by long hits into left, the Colby representative who was delegated to do duty in that territory moved out into the dump and stayed there. He would undoubtedly be willing to second Mr. Garcelon's policy of reclaiming Soldiers Field...