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Except for trees which in 15 centuries have grown thickly upon it, the road was sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into...
...industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home grown" products was the bond used by the politicians to tie the whole State together...
Frank Bartlette Willis, farmer's son, was "home grown" even more consciously and thoroughly than his outstanding contemporaries, Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. He did not live to outgrow Ohio, like a William Howard Taft or a Theodore Elijah Burton. He would have resented the suggestion that he could ever outgrow Ohio. He died as he could only have wished to die, of red fire and political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion...
...Dean Langdell was working with a small group of selected enthusiastic students who were willing to make themselves the guinea pigs for experiment in legal education. But classes have grown since then, incidentally being less carefully selected and the case system is poorly suited for giving large groups of students a practical legal education. Although with a few selected men the system of instruction makes little difference, the case method has limitations with a crowded schedule and crowded classrooms...
...esthetes who long to do her honor. Her library is stocked with the works of Shelley and with the accounts of antique murder trials; her closets contain dresses from Paris; she has had two husbands before Mr. Benét; the daughters of one of them are now grown...