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...States of Europe descended from the mountains of animosity from which they have long been accustomed to glare at one another, went down the rugged mountain paths of doubt, crossed the bog of misgivings and set foot on the great, wide road that leads to a true economic resettlement of the War-torn Continent...
...peculiarly fitting that a Brahms chamber-music cycle, a veritable Brahmsi-orgy, spread out over no less than two months, should have been celebrated this Summer at the "Temple of Chamber Music" at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Eight concerts were heard on successive Sunday afternoons, the last taking place on Aug. 31. The event was made possible by the financial devotion of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, a real patroness, and by the artistic devotion of Maestro Willem Willeke, a real musician...
...Jungfrau, a Swiss scientist claimed to have seen flashes of yellow and green light from the planet, which might have been flashes of sunlight on mountain peaks...
When the dam was completed and the waters of the Chagres backed up, flooding the valley, the higher eminences of the foothills of the Cordilleran mountain chain rose out of the waters as islands. While the waters were rising, the animal life of the tropical valley took refuge on the higher ground on the shores and islands. On the latter this life is now isolated. Naturally, a wide variety of life is collected on some of these small islands...
...Taffari, Crown Prince of Ethiopia and virtually Regent, concluded his European visits, started many weeks ago (TIME, May 12). Ascording to newspapers, when the swarthy Prince left Marseilles for his native heath he was "buried under a mountain of gifts." Thirty tons of luggage had he, most of which consisted of gifts ranging from dogs to clocks...