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...Anglo-Pennsylvania expedition at Ur of the Chaldees, under C. Leonard Woolley, has made progress in revealing the great temple of the Moon God and his consort, erected by early Sumerian kings about 3,600 B. C., and remodeled by Nebuchadnezzar, the Assyrian conqueror, more than a score of centuries later...
Europe. The recent excavations at Pompeii, under Prof. Vittorio Spinazzola, have made greater progress than all previous ones. To date, 530 meters of street have been uncovered by modern methods, which preserve the architecture intact. Old-fashioned excavation was carelessly done by workmen, digging into buildings from below and bringing valuable material down in ruins. Today ashes and rubbish are removed from above, walls and roofs are strengthened and supported, and all details are preserved, including the brilliant original colors of the frescoes...
...gentleman, eminent not only for his striking comments on the progress of business affairs but also for the success with which he has sold them, recently informed the investing public who subscribed to his "service," that the time had come to purchase stocks for investment. Scarcely had this statement been printed and placed in his subscribers' hands, along with the delightful chart inked in many colors which usually accompanies such admonitions, when the stock market began a violent relapse which lasted for over two weeks, and carried stock prices down to the lowest levels of the year...
Senator La Follette, who makes no excuses for "progress...
...compared with the seaplanes used during the War, such as the HS-2, equipped with the same Liberty motor, but painfully making 68 to 70 miles per hour, huge in wing spread, clumsy to handle in the air and on mooring, there is every reason for congratulations on the progress made...