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...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...
...fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
...years that it is only natural it should appear upon the stage. In this play the rumrunner is made a hero, a rough diamond rattling around in the greasy pocket of fate. He wins a lovely lady and confounds the competitors for his cargo, and there is much sea salt in evidence everywhere. One scene, with the schooner swaying in the swells, is amazingly accurate. Of the accuracy of the rest one may have doubts. Romance is seldom accurate. That is why people like to see it on the stage. Life turns the edges of romance too swiftly. Twelve Miles...
...that workers in the mines could be relieved from fatigue by small doses of sodium phosphate. Now Professor Neville Moss of the University of Birmingham claims that miners working in a temperature of about 100° become exhausted less easily when drinking water that contains even 0.2% of common salt. The British physiologist, J. S. Haldane, explains this as due to the fact that the salt added to the drinking water makes up for that taken from the body by perspiration. Scientists are inclined to regard the matter as empirical and await controlled experiments...
...Salt Lake-Los Angeles to Air-Express, Inc., of Los Angeles...