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...Colonel Kozlov discovered were made of wood and consisted in a typical instance of one chamber, measuring about seven by ten yards, placed inside another so as to leave a rather large corridor around the outside. Within the inmost chamber, a heavy, lacquered and decorated coffin lay upon a thick woolen carpet. In the second chamber were found the valuable textiles and other objects. No golden or silver pieces were found in any of the tombs due to the fact that they had already been broken into by robbers at a much earlier date. Human remains were also...
...trainer and "brother," a Malay lad named Ali, is with him through thick and thin, from the night the bellowing tuskers mill and trample in their first stockade after crushing the life out of Ali's father. Together the two weather a Pacific typhoon; a plunge from a railroad trestle in their boxcar; a 100-mile race against an Arab horse; a pulling-match with four draft horses; a cinema tiger-hunt that turns serious...
...remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern takes from the shelf a book of one of those who have made much of their highways, who have journeyed long upon them to find tinkers and troubles and girls...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...
...gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...