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...Warner has taken part in a number of expeditions in China as Fellow of the Fogg Museum for Research in Asia. In the summer of 1923 he left for China and prepared there for a year's trip into the interior...
...Step by step Italians will force back the desert. That task will be one of the glorious pages of the new Italy. We shall force the sand dunes to retreat into the depths of the interior, creating gardens and forests in their places. ... It is a revelation to me that everything can grow here...
Gifts. As the Premier prepared to set out on a tour of the interior, Hassuna Pasha, the native Mayor of Tripoli, presented him with a superb gold writing service and a beautiful Arabian sword. Said he: "Signor Mussolini, few mortals can equal your skill with both the pen and the sword. Our gift is accordingly symbolic...
...University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city was named Cerro Colorado...
...great for researches into the topology of the interior of the atom, has been awarded to Dr. Kemble, Assistant Professor of Physics. Dr. Kemble's investigations will be principally with Professor Sommerfeld at the University of Munich, Germany, and Professor Neils Bohr. at Copenhagen, Denmark...