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...believe that the first letter in the Dec. 14 issue is the most significant of the many which you have published. After the fourth re-reading of it I have classified it as a true index to the mental condition that threw the world into...
...Sphinx's Egyptian beard, which descended from the chin to the chest, disappeared centuries ago; and its loss threw a tremendous strain on the neck. Now the back and sides of the neck have been worn away by the erosion of time and there is danger that the head may topple off. At present the head leans slightly forward, but its weight has been eased by the breaking off of large parts of the headdress...
...Faculty asking to have soldiering removed from the curriculum or at least made an elective. This plea the Faculty decisively rejected. President Sidney E. Mezes sat down and wrote an announcement of his colleagues' decision. One Felix S. Cohen, editor of the undergraduate paper, The Campus, threw the President's announcement into the wastebasket and refused even to mention in his publication the result of the Faculty vote...
...brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once in the shoulder with a shot gun, but she struggled on and threw the bomb out of dangerous proximity. All this goes to prove that the story deals not in pearls but in cartridges. The one thing we actually liked about the picture was Robert Ames, the unfeatured male lead. He was young enough and attractive enough to aid Miss Joy considerably...
...Police Department, stormed the Cathedral, ousted Platon much as that prelate had previously ousted Kedrovsky. Thereupon Platon's adherents produced whatever axes they had to grind, attacked by night, chopped their way into Bishop Adam's residence, reinstated their leader (TIME, Aug. 10). Justice Levy of Manhattan threw Bishop Adam into jail for contempt of court...