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...longest and oldest trade route in the world", Mr. Warner went on, "extends from the northern part of India through a narrow province of modern China to the valley of the Yellow River. This province, Kansu, is where we did most of our work, finding traces of Chinese art, influenced by the Indian Buddhist traders who brought ponies and jade to exchange for the wool and skins of the Tartars. This art is in the form of statues and frescoes left in caves, shrines and temples from the border of Turkestan to Loyang, where the Chinese civilization of that...
Harvard came back strong in the last half. McGlone, starting for the first time in left field, struck out. Campbell walked and too third on Gordon's double of left. Then Todd caught one on the trade-mark and lined to left center for one of the longest home runs ever made on Soldiers Field. The ball came to rest on the lacrosse field, beyond the Freshman bleachers. Jenkins walked, and Hammond emulated Todd by driving out another home run over the left fielder's head. Slayton was safe on an error, but he was caught stealing and Cheek...
...longest despatch ever cabled, it was sent by regenerating repeaters over four cables. "An unparalleled feat," said Newcomb Carlton, Western Union President...
...peace plan. It may be a very short step, yet it is a step in the right direction." As Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College and member of the Jury of Award, said at the luncheon: "The step is an exceedingly short one, but it is the longest the American people are prepared to take...
...longest "hop" will be from the Island of Attu, off the coast of Alaska, to Kashwabara Bay, 860 miles...