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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Shipped by airplane from Copenhagen to Berlin, Miss Borring spent her day with Mathematician Einstein before he left for London. They talked about Relativity, Pacifism...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, quarries, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of recent weeks...
...Palestine. Everybody knows that Joshua and his army of invading Israelites marched round about the Canaanite city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with...
...Presbyterian minister, George Grey Barnard was born 67 years ago in Bellefonte, Pa., now famed as the "hell hole" of trans-Appalachian aviation. He spent his early childhood and learned taxidermy in that delight of small-time comedians, Kankakee, Ill. After studying sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute and the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious...
...must have three or four more years to finish it." said he. "I have spent 15 years perfecting the light in this studio through an arrangement of about 50 curtains and 60 lights and if they tear it down my life and art will be like the movies when the lights go down and everyone hoots and whistles?Darkness and Chaos...