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...Reisner's assistants who had the honor of actually finding the tomb. Allan Rowe '09 and T. R. Greenlees were working according to a plan of action drawn up by Dr. Reisner before leaving, on the plateau of solid rock between the pyramid of Cheops and the Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered...
...sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...
...from among the 11 men who wore Crimson jerseys on Saturday. Pratt perhaps was the most consistent player, and Zarakov showed the same brilliant stick handling that made him a terror to opponents of the 1927 Freshman team. Cumings especially towards the end of the game, remarkably resembled the rock of Gibralter and the allaround ability of the whole team, with combination play stressed, makes futile the featuring of any individual. Scott Hamlen, Pratt, and Zarakov were the Crimson's scorers, but in all but one instance teamwork figured in converting opportunities into goals...
...Palestinian Room of the Museum may be seen such objects as blocks of rock salt from the mountain at the southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women...